This may be getting somewhat OT, but I'd like to dig a little deeper into this.
First of all, security (as in some other proces reading/disclosing the data) is not an issue in this case. The thing is, though, a user could run the script twice, not having closed Word after the first time. So I guess I need unique filenames. Am I right in assuming "tmpFile = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile()" does that automatically? More generally speaking, I'm not sure it's a question of windows vs linux. I often have files open in UltraEdit, which I can then change in some other proces. When I reactivate UEdit, it updates (or closes) the file. So maybe it loads the file in memory and then closes it, and then opens it again for writing. Or something.. To be honest, I don't really understand what it means to have the same file open for writing by several processes. You don't want to modify data which is already being modified by someone else, do you? I mean, how do you determine what changes to apply first, and to what version? Or is the file just constantly being overwritten on a first-come-first-served basis? I may well be completely braindead, here.. g > All this without having "the file is in use" errors, because well... only > windows has those :-) > > Oh, and btw: you'll notice that gVim is smart enough to notice that the > file is no longer there, or that it is there but is more recent than his > working copy (if you re-edited with gedit, for example). > > -- > Renato > -------------------------------- > Usi Fedora? Fai un salto da noi: > http://www.fedoraitalia.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
