HI all,
I came across a strange behaviour with read method, and I'm not sure if
this is a filesystem problem or a misuse of this method.
I do the simple following thing :
f = open ('myFile','r')
content = f.read()
f.close()
When I use this lines really intensively sometimes, at random the content
is not the full content, it lacks some lines at the end.
When reading the file.read docstring I see that there can be some problems
with non-blocking file, but I suppose open() is by default creating a blocking
file.
Is the file line-buffered by default ? This could be a reason for this
early EOF, as I'm reading all the lines at once, and there is several
lines in the file ?
I'm at the moment trying to replace the previous read call by:
content = '\n'.join(f.readlines)
Not sure if this will work better, I'll say you.
Any other idea of this strange behaviour ? Can this be a problem with
filesystem also ?
Any ideas welcomed !
Boris 2 2179
Your file may contain an EOF character before the actual end
of file. You might want to try f=open('myFile','rb') to
open in binary mode, which would ignore EOF characters and
read the entire file.
-Larry
"Boris Boutillier" <bo**************@arteris.net> wrote in message
news:pa****************************@arteris.net... HI all,
I came across a strange behaviour with read method, and I'm not sure if this is a filesystem problem or a misuse of this method. I do the simple following thing : f = open ('myFile','r') content = f.read() f.close()
When I use this lines really intensively sometimes, at random the content is not the full content, it lacks some lines at the end. When reading the file.read docstring I see that there can be some problems with non-blocking file, but I suppose open() is by default creating a
blocking file.
Is the file line-buffered by default ? This could be a reason for this early EOF, as I'm reading all the lines at once, and there is several lines in the file ?
I'm at the moment trying to replace the previous read call by: content = '\n'.join(f.readlines) Not sure if this will work better, I'll say you.
Any other idea of this strange behaviour ? Can this be a problem with filesystem also ?
Any ideas welcomed !
Boris
In article <pa****************************@arteris.net>,
"Boris Boutillier" <bo**************@arteris.net> wrote: I came across a strange behaviour with read method, and I'm not sure if this is a filesystem problem or a misuse of this method. I do the simple following thing : f = open ('myFile','r') content = f.read() f.close()
When I use this lines really intensively sometimes, at random the content is not the full content, it lacks some lines at the end. When reading the file.read docstring I see that there can be some problems with non-blocking file, but I suppose open() is by default creating a blocking file.
Is the file line-buffered by default ? This could be a reason for this early EOF, as I'm reading all the lines at once, and there is several lines in the file ?
No, a disk file will be block buffered. Not that it would matter.
Basically, the read method calculates the size of the file and tries
to fread(3) that amount. The only explanation I can think of (other
than an error somewhere) is a concurrent change to the file.
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