Thanks for confirming my sanity
On Monday, 28 January 2013 11:57:43 UTC, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:47 PM, loial <jldunn2...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am
> parseing a file to extract data, but am seeing the file being updated even
> though I never explicitly write to the file. It is possible that another
> process is doing this at some later time, but I just want to check that
> opening the file as follows and ignoring a record would not result in that
> record being removed from the file. > > I'm damned sure it wouldn't, but just
> wanted to check with the experts!. > > for line in open("/home/john/myfile"):
> Absolutely not. You're opening the file (by default) for reading only. That's
> not going to edit the file in any way. (It might cause the directory entry to
> be rewritten, eg last-access time, but not the file contents.) Your
> expectation is 100% correct. ChrisA
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