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Re: Best (simplest) way to share data between processes

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> On 7 Jul 2024, at 22:13, Chris Green via Python-list <python-list@python.org> wrote:
> 
> a simple file lock can then
> be used to prevent simultaneous access (well, simultaneous access when
> the writing process is writing).

There is a simple pattern to make this robust.

Write new values to a tmp file.
Close the tmp file.
Then use os.rename(tmpfile, productionfile).

This is guaranteed that any process that reads the file will only see all the old file contents or all the new file contents,  never a mix of both.

Barry

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      Re: Best (simplest) way to share data (Posting On Python-List Prohibited) Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-07-09 05:52 +0000
      Re: Best (simplest) way to share data Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2024-07-09 11:02 +0100
  Re: Best (simplest) way to share data between processes Barry <barry@barrys-emacs.org> - 2024-07-07 23:27 +0100
  Re: Best (simplest) way to share data between processes MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2024-07-07 23:47 +0100
  Re: Best (simplest) way to share data between processes Barry Scott <barry@barrys-emacs.org> - 2024-07-08 09:34 +0100
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