Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Steven D'Aprano <steve <at> pearwood.info> writes: >> It depends on what you mean by "temporary". >> >> Applications like OpenOffice can sometimes recover from an application >> crash or even a systems crash and give you the opportunity to restore >> the temporary files that were left lying around. > > For such files, you want deterministic naming in order to find them again, so > you won't use the tempfile module... > Something that doesn't require deterministicly named tempfiles was Ted T'so's explanation linked to earlier.
read data from important file modify data create tempfile write data to tempfile *sync tempfile to disk* mv tempfile to filename of important file The sync is necessary to ensure that the data is written to the disk before the old file overwrites the new filename. -Toshio
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