http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/yeby3zcb(vs.71).aspx
The specific quote is:
When the "r+", "w+", or "a+" access type is specified, both reading and writing are allowed (the file is said to be open for "update"). However, when you switch between reading and writing, there must be an intervening fflush, fsetpos, fseek, or rewind operation. The current position can be specified for the fsetpos or fseek operation, if desired.As an example, here is what you might do in python:
>>> f = open('test', 'wb+')
>>> f.write('initial text\n')
>>> f.close()
>>> f = open('test', 'rb+')
>>> f.read()
'initial text\n'
>>> f.write('this should go at the end\n')
On most platforms, that succeeds. But on Windows, if you don't do
>>> f.seek(0, 2) # Seek to the end of the file
before you call f.write(), you will get an IOError, with e.errno = 0. (Yeah, having an error of SUCCESS is a little hard to figure out).
Anyway, it took a while for me to figure out, so I figured I'd let other people know.
3 comments:
Okay, I give up -- why are you opening it for "Update"?
I could give you the details, but it is a bit involved.
But basically, it is a file with fixed-sized records, that you can update without re-writing the whole file. We don't have all of that logic written yet, but we were building it up with that in mind.
It was very helpful. I could not understand the error that was happening on opening a file by r+. Your blog was the one and only helpful answer formy query on Google
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