"John Pote" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. Are there any python modules 'out there' that might help in securely > writing such files. > 2. Can anyone suggest a book or two on this kind of file management. (These > kind of problems must have been solved in the financial world many times).
It's a complicated subject and is intimately mixed up with details of the OS and filesystem you're using. The relevant books are books about database implementation. One idea for your situation is use an actual database (e.g. MySQL or PostgreSQL) to store the data, so someone else (the database implementer) will have already dealt with the issues of making sure data is flushed properly. Use one of the Python DbAPI modules to communicate with the database. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
