Cleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com> writes:
On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 02:37:27PM -0400, John Snow wrote:
On 9/23/20 11:26 AM, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 05:00:51PM -0400, John Snow wrote:
Make the file handling here just a tiny bit more idiomatic.
(I realize this is heavily subjective.)
Use exist_ok=True for os.makedirs and remove the exception,
use fdopen() to wrap the file descriptor in a File-like object,
and use a context manager for managing the file pointer.
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
I really miss a comment below explaining why we use
open(os.open(pathname, ...), ...) instead of open(pathname, ...).
This code:
fd = os.open(pathname, os.O_RDWR | os.O_CREAT, 0o666)
f = open(fd, 'r+', encoding='utf-8')
Not known to me. It was introduced in 907b846653 as part of an effort to
reduce rebuild times. Maybe this avoids a modification time change if the
file already exists?
Markus?
AFACIT the change on 907b846653 is effective because of the "is new
text different from old text?" conditional. I can not see how the
separate/duplicate open/fdopen would contribute to that.
But, let's hear from Markus.
This was my best attempt to open the file read/write, creating it if it
doesn't exist.
Plain
f = open(pathname, "r+", encoding='utf-8')
fails instead of creates, and
f = open(pathname, "w+", encoding='utf-8')
truncates.
If you know a better way, tell me!