Best way to preprend a list to the top of a file in python

Basically I want to copy comments from one file and add it to the another data.

The file 'data_with_comments.txt' can be obtained from pastebin: http://pastebin.com/Tixij2yG

And it looks like this:

# coating file for detector A/R
# column 1 is the angle of incidence (degrees)
# column 2 is the wavelength (microns)
# column 3 is the transmission probability
# column 4 is the reflection probability
      14.2000     0.300000  8.00000e-05     0.999920
      14.2000     0.301000  4.00000e-05     0.999960
      14.2000     0.302000  2.00000e-05     0.999980
      14.2000     0.303000  2.00000e-05     0.999980
      14.2000     0.304000  2.00000e-05     0.999980
      14.2000     0.305000  3.00000e-05     0.999970
      14.2000     0.306000  5.00000e-05     0.999950

Now, i have another datafile 'test.txt' which looks like this:

300.0 1.53345164121e-32
300.1 1.53345164121e-32
300.2 1.53345164121e-32
300.3 1.53345164121e-32
300.4 1.53345164121e-32
300.5 1.53345164121e-32

Required output:

# coating file for detector A/R
# column 1 is the angle of incidence (degrees)
# column 2 is the wavelength (microns)
# column 3 is the transmission probability
# column 4 is the reflection probability
300.0 1.53345164121e-32
300.1 1.53345164121e-32
300.2 1.53345164121e-32
300.3 1.53345164121e-32
300.4 1.53345164121e-32

One way to do this is:

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# Author    : Bhishan Poudel
# Date      : Jun 18, 2016


# Imports
from __future__ import print_function
import fileinput


# read in comments from the file
infile = 'data_with_comments.txt'
comments = []
with open(infile, 'r') as fi:
    for line in fi.readlines():
        if line.startswith('#'):
            comments.append(line)

# reverse the list
comments = comments[::-1]
print(comments[0])
#==============================================================================


# preprepend a list to a file
filename = 'test.txt'

for i in range(len(comments)):
    with file(filename, 'r') as original: data = original.read()
    with file(filename, 'w') as modified: modified.write(comments[i] + data)

In this method we have to open the file many times and it is not efficient when the data file is very large.

Is there any better way of doing this?

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