Wolfgang Draxinger schrieb: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >> But the source file always exists, otherwise there is nothing >> to rename! Do you mean, open the destination filename? > > Of course I meant the destination file. Someone please spill some > ice chilled water over me to get me awake again. Time to go to > bed :-P before I make more dumb mistakes/typos...
But that doesn't help. Opening the destination file that way will only make a difference if _both_ processes that fight over that filename work that way. Which might be possible in the actual case, but not as a general recipe. The link/unlink trick of Chetan sounds reasonable, though. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
