On 13/07/12 19:59:59, Prasad, Ramit wrote: > I lean slightly towards the POSIX handling with the addition that > any additional write should throw an error. You are now saving to > a file that will not exist the moment you close it and that is > probably not expected.
I'd say: it depends. If the amount of data your script needs to process does not fit in RAM, then you may want to write some of it to a temporary file. On a Posix system, it's entirely normal to unlink() a temp file first thing after you've created it. The expectation is that the file will continue to exists, and be writeable, until you close it. In fact, there's a function in the standard library named tempfile.TemporaryFile that does exactly that: create a file and unlink it immediately. This function would be useless if you couldn't write to your temporary file. Hope this helps, -- HansM -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
