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

[Sven R. Kunze]

On 23.03.2016 23:30, Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 6:20 PM, Sven R. Kunze <srkunze at mail.de 
> <mailto:srkunze at mail.de>> wrote:
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>
>     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.

What makes you think that I think my bash example implements an atomic 
write? ;-)


My point was the simplicity of the bash command. Make it Python as 
simple AND atomic here (with file handling) and people will drop bash 
immediately.


Best,
Sven
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