[New-bugs-announce] [issue36807] IDLE doesn't call os.fsync()

[Guido van Rossum]

New submission from Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org>:

This came up during today's final PyCon keynote -- IDLE was called out
as one of the two editors *not* to use when live-coding on Adafruit's
Circuit Playground Express (https://www.adafruit.com/product/3333).

I *think* that the problem referred to is that IDLE doesn't guarantee
that the bits are actually flushed to disk -- they may linger in the
OS filesystem cache.

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assignee: terry.reedy
components: IDLE
messages: 341474
nosy: gvanrossum, terry.reedy
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: patch review
status: open
title: IDLE doesn't call os.fsync()
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.6, Python 3.7, Python 3.8

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