Re: Python path and append

From	Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: Python path and append
Date	2016-04-26 10:25 +1000
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On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 7:26 AM, John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> wrote:
> It's much easier to create a new file and then rename it afterwards,
> instead of rewriting the original file.

And more importantly, it's safer. If anything happens to your process
while it's doing its work, you'll have a junk file sitting around, but
you won't have lost everything. If you overwrite the existing file,
you (often) depend on completely writing out the content you have in
memory.

ChrisA

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Python path and append Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2016-04-19 18:29 -0400
  Re: Python path and append Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-04-20 08:38 +1000
  Re: Python path and append Matthew Barnett <mrabarnett@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2016-04-20 00:36 +0100
  Re: Python path and append Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2016-04-25 14:10 -0400
    Re: Python path and append Rob Gaddi <rgaddi@highlandtechnology.invalid> - 2016-04-25 18:24 +0000
      Re: Python path and append Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2016-04-25 15:00 -0400
        RE: Python path and append Joaquin Alzola <Joaquin.Alzola@lebara.com> - 2016-04-25 19:08 +0000
          Re: Python path and append Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2016-04-25 16:15 -0400
            Re: Python path and append Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2016-04-25 16:28 -0400
            Re: Python path and append Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2016-04-25 23:38 +0200
            Re: Python path and append Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-04-25 19:57 -0400
        Re: Python path and append Rob Gaddi <rgaddi@highlandtechnology.invalid> - 2016-04-25 19:31 +0000
        Re: Python path and append MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2016-04-25 20:44 +0100
          Re: Python path and append Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2016-04-25 16:43 -0400
        Re: Python path and append Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-04-26 11:51 +1000
          Re: Python path and append Dan Sommers <dan@tombstonezero.net> - 2016-04-26 01:59 +0000
          Re: Python path and append Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2016-04-26 18:23 +1200
          Re: Python path and append boB Stepp <robertvstepp@gmail.com> - 2016-04-29 15:26 -0500
            Re: Python path and append Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-04-30 11:44 +1000
    Re: Python path and append John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2016-04-25 21:26 +0000
      Re: Python path and append Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2016-04-25 18:04 -0400
        Re: Python path and append Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-04-25 20:03 -0400
        Re: Python path and append Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-04-26 11:53 +1000
          Re: Python path and append Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2016-04-26 22:56 -0400
            Re: Python path and append Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-04-27 13:06 +1000
            Re: Python path and append Stephen Hansen <me+python@ixokai.io> - 2016-04-27 17:24 -0700
      Re: Python path and append Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-04-26 10:25 +1000

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