On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohn...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jul 12, 2:39 pm, Christian Heimes <li...@cheimes.de> wrote: >> Windows's file system layer is not POSIX compatible. For example >> you can't remove or replace a file while it is opened by a process. > > Sounds like a reasonable fail-safe to me.
POSIX says that files and file names are independent. I can open a file based on its name, delete the file based on its name, and still have the open file there. When it's closed, it'll be wiped from the disk. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
