Start application & continue after app exits

[Guy Lateur]

This may be getting somewhat OT, but I'd like to dig a little deeper into 
this.

First of all, security (as in some other proces reading/disclosing the data) 
is not an issue in this case. The thing is, though, a user could run the 
script twice, not having closed Word after the first time. So I guess I need 
unique filenames. Am I right in assuming "tmpFile = 
tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile()" does that automatically?

More generally speaking, I'm not sure it's a question of windows vs linux. I 
often have files open in UltraEdit, which I can then change in some other 
proces. When I reactivate UEdit, it updates (or closes) the file. So maybe 
it loads the file in memory and then closes it, and then opens it again for 
writing. Or something..

To be honest, I don't really understand what it means to have the same file 
open for writing by several processes. You don't want to modify data which 
is already being modified by someone else, do you? I mean, how do you 
determine what changes to apply first, and to what version? Or is the file 
just constantly being overwritten on a first-come-first-served basis?

I may well be completely braindead, here..


g



> All this without having "the file is in use" errors, because well... only 
> windows has those :-)
>
> Oh, and btw: you'll notice that gVim is smart enough to notice that the 
> file is no longer there, or that it is there but is more recent than his 
> working copy (if you re-edited with gedit, for example).
>
> -- 
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