Nice idea! You can also do this with PyFilesystem... fs.gettext('/home/amyjess/stuff/foo.txt') fs.settext('/home/amyjess/stuff/foo.txt', bar) There a

Nice idea! You can also do this with PyFilesystem... fs.gettext('/home/amyjess/stuff/foo.txt') fs.settext('/home/amyjess/stuff/foo.txt', bar) There are equivalent bytes methods.