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Subject: Re: Python path and append
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On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 18:04:00 -0400, Seymore4Head
<Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> declaimed the following:

>I learned enough python to complete an online course from Dr Chuck but
>I don't write enough code to remember how except for a simple task
>that is usually simpler to do manually than to remember how to code.
>


	But this isn't a Python specific problem. This is simple language
independent algorithm. You'd have the same problem in C, BASIC, Pascal,
Ada, REXX, or assembler. (Well, maybe not on Xerox CP/V if using UPDATE
mode with a file organization of "KEYED" [aka ISAM] where the key is the
record number, as it could potentially put longer records somewhere else in
the data segments -- not sure as it has been over 25 years since my college
days)
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