http://code.activestate.com/recipes/tags/atomic-save/2012-06-17T12:09:49-07:00ActiveState Code Recipes2012-06-17T12:09:49-07:00Oren Tiroshhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/2033964/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/578166-context-manager-to-atomically-replace-a-file/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 578166 by <a href="/recipes/users/2033964/">Oren Tirosh</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/atomic/">atomic</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/contextmanager/">contextmanager</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/file/">file</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/replace/">replace</a>). Revision 3. </p> <p>This context manager ensures that a file's content is either replaced atomically with new contents or left unchanged. An exception or other error will not leave it empty or with partial content.</p>