RSFile advanced I/O file streams
Project description
RSFile provides pure-python drop-in replacements for the classes of the io module, and for the open() builtin.
Its goal is to provide a cross-platform, reliable, and comprehensive synchronous file I/O API, with advanced features like fine-grained opening modes, shared/exclusive file record locking, thread-safety, cache synchronization, file descriptor inheritability, and handy stat getters (size, inode, times…).
Locking is performed using actual file locking capabilities of the OS, not by using separate files/directories as locking markers, or other fragile gimmicks.
Possible use cases for this library: concurrently writing to logs without ending up with garbled data, manipulating sensitive data like disk-based databases, synchronizing heterogeneous producer/consumer processes when multiprocessing semaphores aren’t an option…
Tested on python2.7 and python3.5+, on windows and unix-like systems. Should work with IronPython/Jython/PyPy too, since it uses stdlib utilities and ctypes bridges.
Learn more about RSFile : http://rsfile.readthedocs.io/
INSTALL
Using pip is recommended, although installing from a checkout of the repository (via setup.py) also works:
$ pip install rsfile
QUICKSTART
from rsfile import rsopen with rsopen("myfile.txt", "w") as f: f.write(u"This string will be veeeeeryyyyy safely written to file.") with rsopen("myfile.txt", "WANISB", locking=False, thread_safe=False) as f: f.write(b"See the docs for info on these cool new modes and parameters.")
See CONTRIBUTING.rst for other cases of the module (testing, benchmarking…)
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