> Chris Garrigues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> For example, what prevents the Python interpreter from appending a > >> string by appending it character-by-character? In that case, the > >> competing "appends" may intertwine in an unexpected way. > > > > If it does this, then you've just found a rather nasty performance > > bug in Python.
Jason wrote: > No, Python doesn't do this. File objects in Python and related > methods are just thin wrappers around your system's stdio C library. > > See http://python.org/dev/doc/devel/lib/bltin-file-objects.html > _____________________________________________ Hmmm ... from the URL you cited, I obtained this: <BEGIN> write( str) : Write a string to the file. There is no return value. Due to buffering, the string may not actually show up in the file until the flush() or close() method is called. <END> Statements like that do not inspire confidence. I'll research it to the end. Dave. _____________________________________________ tmda-users mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users
