Ethan wrote: > One more option may be to attempt to rename > the file -- if it's still open for copying, that will fail; > success indicates the copy is done.
Caveat -- this is dependent on the operating system! Windows will indeed not allow you to rename or delete a file that's still open for writing by another process, at least not when the file is on a local NTFS filesystem, but don't count on this on Unix or networked filesystems. There you can easily rename, move or delete a filename from a directory whilst other processes still write to it. After all, a directory is nothing else than a list of filenames which map to certain inodes. Greetings, -- "The ability of the OSS process to collect and harness the collective IQ of thousands of individuals across the Internet is simply amazing." - Vinod Vallopillil http://www.catb.org/~esr/halloween/halloween4.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
