Rob> I'm looking to write a Log file which will be CSV based, and there
Rob> is a good possibility that it'll get quite busy once its up and
Rob> running, so I'm looking for the most efficient way to achieve
Rob> it.
In addition to Tim's advice, if you're worried about possible loss of data
you can set a timer to flush the file object every second or so.
myfile = open("Logs/Application.txt", "wb") # note "b"inary mode!
writer = csv.writer(myfile)
set_a_timer(1.0, myfile.flush)
...
You didn't indicate your platform so I can't be more specific about
set_a_timer(). In my work environment we use Gtk a lot, so
gobject.timeout_add works for us. You could also call signal.alarm on
Unixoid systems. I'm sure there's something similar in Win32.
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