Grant Edwards wrote: > Amir Michail wrote: > >> Trying to open a file for writing that is already open for writing >> should result in an exception. > > MS Windows seems to do something similar, and it pisses me off > no end. Trying to open a file and read it while somebody else > has it open for writing causes an exception. If I want to open > a file and read it while it's being writtent to, that's my > business.
Windows is actually much more sophisticated. It does allows shared write access; see the FILE_SHARE_WRITE option for Win32's CreateFile. You can also lock specific byte ranges in a file. -- --Bryan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
