Path: ...!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: Barry Scott Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Best (simplest) way to share data between processes Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2024 09:34:44 +0100 Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: <9a8nlk-jb81.ln1@q957.zbmc.eu> <6e86fff1-d24c-42c9-bc72-7e22757686ec@mrabarnett.plus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 16.0 \(3774.600.62\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de S6eHFGEbU90NiVVjSl1LzgSMXMyvyy3ekI4VgqB6dVjw== Cancel-Lock: sha1:0h5s/V6IdhU7cS70zSFF2SJwQ3s= sha256:Rie0V2EMOUi3SwNu1bdK3bWdspjOXcyjfZ6y/hVOPIg= Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org Authentication-Results: mail.python.org; dkim=none reason="no signature"; dkim-adsp=none (unprotected policy); dkim-atps=neutral X-Spam-Status: OK 0.010 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.98; '*S*': 0.00; 'jul': 0.04; 'cc:addr :python-list': 0.09; 'from:addr:barry': 0.09; 'linux': 0.09; 'received:217.70': 0.09; 'received:gandi.net': 0.09; 'received:mail.gandi.net': 0.09; 'subject:between': 0.09; 'cc:no real name:2**0': 0.14; 'barry': 0.16; 'behaviour': 0.16; 'from:addr:barrys-emacs.org': 0.16; 'from:name:barry scott': 0.16; 'instead.': 0.16; 'message-id:@barrys-emacs.org': 0.16; 'rpi.': 0.16; 'subject:way': 0.16; 'windows.': 0.16; 'wrote: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3774.600.62) X-GND-Sasl: barry@barrys-emacs.org X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.39 X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.39 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-Mailman-Original-Message-ID: X-Mailman-Original-References: <9a8nlk-jb81.ln1@q957.zbmc.eu> <6e86fff1-d24c-42c9-bc72-7e22757686ec@mrabarnett.plus.com> Bytes: 3712 > On 7 Jul 2024, at 23:47, MRAB via Python-list = wrote: >=20 > For clarity I'd recommend os.replace instead. This is because on = Windows os.rename it would complain if the target file already exists, = but os.replace has the same behaviour on both Linux and Windows. Agreed. In this case the OP is on an RPi. Barry