Hi reliability files, writing,reading,maintaining

2006-02-11 Thread Lucabrocci
Who said you could have my name? Get ur own ,I know it's a great name but u still cant have it! So start practicing your new signature. Jokingly... John J. Pote PS: "Good Luck in Prison!" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Hi reliability files, writing,reading,maintaining

2006-02-09 Thread John Pote
Hello, help/advice appreciated. Background: I am writing some web scripts in python to receive small amounts of data from remote sensors and store the data in a file. 50 to 100 bytes every 5 or 10 minutes. A new file for each day is anticipated. Of considerable importance is the long term

Re: Hi reliability files, writing,reading,maintaining

2006-02-09 Thread Cameron Laird
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Martin P. Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Pote wrote: cut So my request: 1. Are there any python modules 'out there' that might help in securely writing such files. 2. Can anyone suggest a book or two on this kind of file management. (These kind of problems

Re: Hi reliability files, writing,reading,maintaining

2006-02-09 Thread John Pote
Thanks for all the replies, cut from Cameron Laird Also, the whole idea of basing reliability on HTTP uploads of 50 bytes at a time sounds to me a bit ... strained. There *must* be simpler ways--and simpler goes a long way in the direction of trustworthy. The motivation to look at http: is

Re: Hi reliability files, writing,reading,maintaining

2006-02-09 Thread Cameron Laird
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Pote [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . . . The motivation to look at http: is the widespread avaiability of internet connections and standard servers able to run CGI scripts. In particular the