file.readlines() and IOError exceptions

[Fredrik Lundh]

Astan Chee wrote:

> now the file Im trying to read has recently had alot of read/writes from 
> other users/threads/etc, so every now and again I get a
> IOError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor

> I know this has something to do with not being able to read while some 
> filehandles are open (or is it?)..

EBADF usually means that you're trying to read from a file that's no 
longer open.  other users shouldn't be able to cause that error; I'd 
suspect sloppy thread programming...

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