/brz/remove-bazaar

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class AtomicFile:

    """A file that does an atomic-rename to move into place.

    This also causes hardlinks to break when it's written out.

    Open this as for a regular file, then use commit() to move into

    place or abort() to cancel.

    You may wish to wrap this in a codecs.EncodedFile to do unicode

    encoding.

    """

    def __init__(self, filename, mode='wb'):

        if mode != 'wb' and mode != 'wt':

            raise ValueError("invalid AtomicFile mode %r" % mode)

        import os, socket

        self.tmpfilename = '%s.tmp.%d.%s' % (filename, os.getpid(),

                                             socket.gethostname())

        self.realfilename = filename

        self.f = open(self.tmpfilename, mode)

        self.write = self.f.write

    def commit(self):

        import sys, os

        self.f.close()

        if sys.platform == 'win32':

            os.remove(self.realfilename)

        os.rename(self.tmpfilename, self.realfilename)

    def abort(self):

        import os

        self.f.close()

        os.remove(self.tmpfilename)