Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan <at> gmail.com> writes: >> The tempfile module would be another example. > > Do you really need your temporary files to survive system crashes? ;)
No, but they need to provide the full file API. If we add a sync() method to file objects, that becomes part of the "file-like" API. On the performance side... the overhead from fsync() itself is going to dwarf the CPU overhead of going through a wrapper class. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
