I am an R user who is increasing my knowledge of Python, and I wondered if Python is best understood as using Message Passing Object Oriented (MPOO) syntax, or like R, Generic Functional Object Oriented (GFOO) syntax?
I encouraged the MPOO and GFOO concepts in Hadley Wickham's 2010 Mutable Objects in R. The red font is my text.
The first question might be how to change the first lines of text in an opened file, in one line like the above, in Python. Examples I have found use multiple lines, such as what constructs the function found in this SO answer.
def replace_line(file_name, line_num, text):
lines = open(file_name, 'r').readlines()
lines[line_num] = text
out = open(file_name, 'w')
out.writelines(lines)
out. Close()
replace_line('stats.txt', 0, 'Mage')
