From 333ebde5a2c48bfd4b33c89e84211c8c454cde3c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: StableLlama <stablellama@tutanota.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2026 21:53:17 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Allow appending for text string saving

---
 src/basic_data_handling/path_nodes.py | 11 ++++++++---
 tests/test_path_nodes.py              | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/basic_data_handling/path_nodes.py b/src/basic_data_handling/path_nodes.py
index 9274bea..078b33a 100644
--- a/src/basic_data_handling/path_nodes.py
+++ b/src/basic_data_handling/path_nodes.py
@@ -958,6 +958,8 @@ class PathSaveStringFile(ComfyNodeABC):
 
     This node takes a string and saves it to the specified path as a text file.
     Optionally, you can choose to create the directory if it doesn't exist.
+    If 'append' is True, the text is appended to an existing file instead of
+    overwriting it.
     """
     @classmethod
     def INPUT_TYPES(cls):
@@ -968,6 +970,7 @@ class PathSaveStringFile(ComfyNodeABC):
             },
             "optional": {
                 "create_dirs": (IO.BOOLEAN, {"default": True}),
+                "append": (IO.BOOLEAN, {"default": False}),
                 "encoding": (IO.STRING, {"default": "utf-8"}),
             }
         }
@@ -979,7 +982,7 @@ class PathSaveStringFile(ComfyNodeABC):
     FUNCTION = "save_text"
     OUTPUT_NODE = True
 
-    def save_text(self, text: str, path: str, create_dirs: bool = True, encoding: str = "utf-8"):
+    def save_text(self, text: str, path: str, create_dirs: bool = True, append: bool = False, encoding: str = "utf-8"):
         if not path:
             print("Basic data handling: Save failed - no path specified")
             return (False,)
@@ -990,10 +993,12 @@ class PathSaveStringFile(ComfyNodeABC):
             if directory and create_dirs and not os.path.exists(directory):
                 os.makedirs(directory)
 
-            with open(path, "w", encoding=encoding) as f:
+            mode = "a" if append else "w"
+            with open(path, mode, encoding=encoding) as f:
                 f.write(text)
 
-            print(f"Basic data handling: Successfully saved text to {path}")
+            action = "appended" if append else "saved"
+            print(f"Basic data handling: Successfully {action} text to {path}")
             return (True,)
         except Exception as e:
             print(f"Basic data handling: Error saving text file: {e}")
diff --git a/tests/test_path_nodes.py b/tests/test_path_nodes.py
index 7516d70..65b447d 100644
--- a/tests/test_path_nodes.py
+++ b/tests/test_path_nodes.py
@@ -57,6 +57,25 @@ def test_path_load_save_string_file(tmp_path):
     # Test error handling
     assert load_node.load_text(str(tmp_path / "nonexistent.txt")) == ("", False)
 
+def test_path_save_string_file_append(tmp_path):
+    # Test appending to an existing file
+    save_node = PathSaveStringFile()
+    load_node = PathLoadStringFile()
+    file_path = str(tmp_path / "append_test.txt")
+
+    # Save initial content
+    assert save_node.save_text("First line\n", file_path) == (True,)
+
+    # Append to the file
+    assert save_node.save_text("Second line\n", file_path, append=True) == (True,)
+
+    # Verify the content was appended, not overwritten
+    assert load_node.load_text(file_path) == ("First line\nSecond line\n", True)
+
+    # Verify default behavior still overwrites
+    assert save_node.save_text("Overwritten", file_path) == (True,)
+    assert load_node.load_text(file_path) == ("Overwritten", True)
+
 
 def test_path_abspath():
     node = PathAbspath()