writing to a file (atomic operation)

[Chris Gonnerman]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Lee" <senux at senux.com>


> Is this a atomic operation?
> 
> open('/tmp/test.log', 'a').write('test\n')
> 
> from py newbie.

No.  Why exactly do you need it to be?  "Atomic" means that it can't be
interrupted by another process before completion; not many operations
are truly atomic in modern OS design. 

Very little of what you do in Python will be truly atomic.

Chris Gonnerman -- chris.gonnerman at newcenturycomputers.net
http://newcenturycomputers.net