I suppose this is really more of a technical aspect, dealing with the possibility of a race condition (although in my personal case, the probability is infinitely small).
I'm writing a program that uses the ConfigParser module to open a config file, and if that file isn't present, I'd like to create it. I'll also be syncing a series of files from one directory to another. I'll be creating a list of files in each dir using os.walk, and copying the files that aren't present in the destination dir. After looking online I've found various opinions on what the "best" way is to deal with the possibility of a race condition. The way I intend to use my program, a race condition should never occur, but if I ever release the source, I'd like it to at least fail gracefully. Is there a solid way to prevent a race condition, or is it just sort of a "do your best" type situation? Thanks, Wayne -- To be considered stupid and to be told so is more painful than being called gluttonous, mendacious, violent, lascivious, lazy, cowardly: every weakness, every vice, has found its defenders, its rhetoric, its ennoblement and exaltation, but stupidity hasn't. - Primo Levi
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