>>Also note that this method of creating tempfiles is technically unsafe, >>as it is theoretically possible that another process would create a file >>of the same name in the same directory and then try to use it, resulting >>in a race condition between the two processes. This is practically >>unlikely, however, and I'm a pragmatist.
I see what you mean, but wouldn't a call to open(fn, 'w') on a filename that's in use (for reading or writing) result in an error condition or something? I'm a noob, btw. Thanks for the info, guys, much appreciated. I'll try it soon (on XP) - I'm a pragmatist, too, you see.. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
