file write collision consideration

[Francesco Bochicchio]

On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:08:46 -0500, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:57:52 -0500
> RGK <blank at empty.blank> wrote:
>> I have a thread that is off reading things some of which will get 
>> written into a file while another UI thread manages input from a user.
>> 
>> The reader-thread and the UI-thread will both want to write stuff to the 
>> same output file. What first comes to mind is that there may be write 
>> collisions, ie both trying to write at the same time.
> 
> Why not create a third thread that handles the write?  The other
> threads can simply add objects to a queue.  You will still need
> collision handling in the queue adder but it only needs to block for a
> small time as opposed to the much longer disk write time.

IIRC, Queue.Queue objects handle by themselves multi-thread access, that
is there is no need to additional locking mechanism ...

Ciao
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