On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 03:47:07 -0800 (PST) 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. The only complication I'd see would be the reader bombing out because the writer process is in the middle of writing. A quick test on WinXP showed that it's possible to continue to write to a file that another process has open for reading (this shouldn't be an issue on POSIX OSes; Win32 can be a bit more fascist about sharing files, especially if they're both open for writing). However, that doesn't alter the data written, so all it takes is just re-running the reader process. -tkc -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
