Adrian Eyre a.eyre at optichrome.com
Mon Jan 31 08:45:15 EST 2000

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> After hacking for a while, I managed to work around the problem by
> doing:
> 
>     time.sleep(0.1)
>     f.close()
> 
> But this is highly unsatisfactory..... Is there anyone that can give me 
> a better suggestion?

I expect the OS hasn't finished with the file before it receives the
close().

Try replacing "time.sleep(0.1)" with "f.flush()". IIRC flush() blocks
untils the file operation has completed.

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Adrian Eyre <a.eyre at optichrome.com>
http://www.optichrome.com 

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