On 9/02/2012 12:17 PM, Andrew Hammond wrote:
We're using pycurl to download a file. The file is written to disk in the context of a with statement. Once the file is written, we exit the context and then do an os.rename() to move the downloaded file to it's final destination. Immediately before doing the rename, I confirm that the filehandle is closed. However, it appears that there is some lag between when it says the filehandle is close and when it actually gets closed because I often get a "[Error 32] The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process" exception raised on the rename operation. Is this a known issue? Running python 2.6 on win32.
A virus scanner or indexer can cause this problem - it sees the new file then opens it to do its thing. If that sounds like the problem you could either disable whatever tool is causing the problem, or just have a loop which tries once per second for a few seconds...
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