On 16Jul2011 10:34, Josh English <joshua.r.engl...@gmail.com> wrote: | I found a FileLock (lost the link and it's not in the code) that uses | context managers to create a ".lock" file in the same directory of the | file. It uses os.unlink to delete the .lock file but I don't know if | this deletes the file or just removes it from the directory and leaves | the memory filled.
os.unlink removes the filename. On all sane systems, if that is the last reference to the file (no other names, no open file handles) then the memory/storage is also released. | If it does, I don't know if the OS will overwrite | that memory. I'm afraid of taking up lots of space that I don't need | with this program. Don't be. | The docs indicate that Unix recovers the memory, but I'm not sure about Windows. I confess to disliking Windows, but I do not believe it is that broken. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Last month, my alumni/ae association sent out a questionnaire. One of the questions they asked was my/my household's annual income. The choices were: (a) Less than $25,000, (b) $25,001-50,000, (c) $50,001-100,000, (d) $100,001-250,000, (e) $250,001-500,000, (f) $500,001-1,000,000, (g) $1,000,000 or more. Yeah, right. Nice median. - Dan Hillman, dcah...@cus.cam.ac.uk -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
