- show how to use file.write() with a non-string value
(closes SF bug #621057)
- add missing whitespace around assignment operator
diff --git a/Doc/tut/tut.tex b/Doc/tut/tut.tex
index eeca1d2..1794ba4 100644
--- a/Doc/tut/tut.tex
+++ b/Doc/tut/tut.tex
@@ -3157,6 +3157,15 @@
>>> f.write('This is a test\n')
\end{verbatim}
+To write something other than a string, it needs to be converted to a
+string first:
+
+\begin{verbatim}
+>>> value = ('the answer', 42)
+>>> s = str(value)
+>>> f.write(s)
+\end{verbatim}
+
\code{f.tell()} returns an integer giving the file object's current
position in the file, measured in bytes from the beginning of the
file. To change the file object's position, use
@@ -3169,7 +3178,7 @@
using the beginning of the file as the reference point.
\begin{verbatim}
->>> f=open('/tmp/workfile', 'r+')
+>>> f = open('/tmp/workfile', 'r+')
>>> f.write('0123456789abcdef')
>>> f.seek(5) # Go to the 6th byte in the file
>>> f.read(1)