Op 28/08/2025 om 18:02 schreef MRAB:
On 2025-08-28 03:08, Grant Edwards via Python-list wrote:
In the event of an exception, you attempt to remove the destination
file BEFORE exiting the `with` statement. While that might succeed on
some platforms, it will potentially fail on others.
Specifica
On 2025-08-28, Roel Schroeven wrote:
>> If an OS did let you delete an open file, how would you expect it to
>> behave? Would you still be able to use the file? Would the file be
>> marked for deletion and be deleted when it was finally closed?
> Unix-like operating systems do let you delete a
On 2025-08-28, Mark Bourne wrote:
> Ethan Carter wrote:
>> PS. Is it just me or there's just us in this used-to-be-very-active
>> group? Thanks for being my teacher here. Have a good day!
>>
>
> Until a few months ago, there was a gateway that forwarded messages both
> ways between this newsg
Ethan Carter wrote:
PS. Is it just me or there's just us in this used-to-be-very-active
group? Thanks for being my teacher here. Have a good day!
Until a few months ago, there was a gateway that forwarded messages both
ways between this newsgroup and a mailing list. It seems to have
stop
Stefan Ram wrote:
Ethan Carter wrote or quoted:
def copy(s, d):
"""Copies text file named S to text file named D."""
with open(s) as src:
with open(d, "w") as dst:
try:
dst.write(src.read())
except Exception:
os.remove(d)
raise
In Python there ar
On 2025-08-28 03:08, Grant Edwards via Python-list wrote:
On 2025-08-27, Chris Angelico via Python-list wrote:
On Thu, 28 Aug 2025 at 01:28, Ethan Carter wrote:
def copy(s, d):
"""Copies text file named S to text file named D."""
with open(s) as src:
with open(d, "w") as dst:
tr
The suggestion (below) is good-practice. However, it's advanced-Python
compared to the OP's first-course progress.
What is disappointing, is that instead of general strings as file-names
the class has not been introduced to pathlib
(https://docs.python.org/3/library/pathlib.html).
PS Ethan:
On 29/08/25 10:52, Grant Edwards via Python-list wrote:
On 2025-08-28, Mark Bourne wrote:
Ethan Carter wrote:
PS. Is it just me or there's just us in this used-to-be-very-active
group? Thanks for being my teacher here. Have a good day!
Until a few months ago, there was a gateway that for
