On Jan 22, 7:54 pm, Benjamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I writing writing a class to allow settings (options, preferences) to > written file in a cross platform manner. I'm unsure how to go a about > syncing the data to disk. Of course, it's horribly inefficient to > write the data every time something changes a value, however I don't > see how I can do it on deletion. I've read that __del__ methods should > be avoided. So am I just going to have to force the client of my > object to call sync when they're done?
Lots of ways 1. Try the atexit module 2. Use a weakref callback 3. Embed a client callback in a try/finally. 4. Or, like you said, have the client call a sync() method -- this is explicit and gives the client control over when data is written. Raymond -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
