anirudhacharya commented on a change in pull request #12572: Make Gluon
download function to be atomic
URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/12572#discussion_r218254687
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File path: python/mxnet/gluon/utils.py
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@@ -242,23 +277,34 @@ def download(url, path=None, overwrite=False,
sha1_hash=None, retries=5, verify_
dirname = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(os.path.expanduser(fname)))
if not os.path.exists(dirname):
os.makedirs(dirname)
- while retries+1 > 0:
+ while retries + 1 > 0:
# Disable pyling too broad Exception
# pylint: disable=W0703
try:
- print('Downloading %s from %s...'%(fname, url))
+ print('Downloading {} from {}...'.format(fname, url))
r = requests.get(url, stream=True, verify=verify_ssl)
if r.status_code != 200:
- raise RuntimeError("Failed downloading url %s"%url)
- with open(fname, 'wb') as f:
+ raise RuntimeError('Failed downloading url {}'.format(url))
+ # create uuid for temporary files
+ random_uuid = str(uuid.uuid4())
+ with open('{}.{}'.format(fname, random_uuid), 'wb') as f:
+ # create uuid for temporary files
for chunk in r.iter_content(chunk_size=1024):
if chunk: # filter out keep-alive new chunks
f.write(chunk)
+ # if the target file exists(created by other processes),
+ # delete the temporary file
+ if os.path.exists(fname):
+ os.remove('{}.{}'.format(fname, random_uuid))
Review comment:
so if the check exists there in line 280. why are we repeating it here. What
purpose does this check serve?
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