Thanks to y'all. I should have be more careful reading the documentation. Cheers
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Martin v. Loewis <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote: >> The code works fine. I just don't know how f.write works. It says that >> file.write won't write the file until file.close or file.flush. > > You are misinterpreting the documentation. It certainly won't keep the > entire file in memory. Instead, it has a fixed-size buffer (something > like 8kiB or 32kiB) in which it writes and which it flushes when that > buffer is full. > > The comment about flush and close merely refers to the problem that some > data may still be in the buffer at any point in time, unless you just > called close or flush. > > HTH, > Martin > -- Jackie -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
