On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 7:26 AM, John Gordon <gor...@panix.com> wrote: > It's much easier to create a new file and then rename it afterwards, > instead of rewriting the original file.
And more importantly, it's safer. If anything happens to your process while it's doing its work, you'll have a junk file sitting around, but you won't have lost everything. If you overwrite the existing file, you (often) depend on completely writing out the content you have in memory. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
