[Python-Dev] best place for an atomic file API (original) (raw)

Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Thu Feb 16 02:49:54 CET 2012

Brian Curtin <brian at python.org> writes:

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 19:19, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote: > Charles-François Natali <neologix at free.fr> writes: > >> […] using rename() on POSIX systems and MoveFileEx() on Windows >> (which are now available through os.replace()). It would also use >> fsync() on POSIX to make sure data is committed to disk. > > These make it quite OS-specific.

That'll happen when solving problems on different OSes. Do you propose a more platform agnostic solution?

No, I have no objection to that implementation. I'm pointing that out only because the nature of the functionality implies I'd expect to find it within the ‘os’ module hierarchy.

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