[Python-ideas] `to_file()` method for strings

[Alexander Belopolsky]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 6:20 PM, Sven R. Kunze <srkunze at mail.de> wrote:

>
> bash:  echo "my string" >> my_file
> python: with open('my_file', 'w') as f: f.write('my string')

...

>
> I can tell you from my experience with several aged Python developers that
> they regularly fail to implement atomic file operations. Just saying.


What make you think your bash example implements an atomic write?  It
actually performs an append and therefore not equivalent to the python code
that followed.
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