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python-atomicwrites
Python2022–2022
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python-atomicwrites

Powerful Python library for atomic file writes.

2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
321GitHub stars
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What it is

Powerful Python library for atomic file writes.

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 6:01:08 PM UTC.

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Observed mentions: 2022-07-08 20:35:27 UTC to 2022-07-08 21:50:26 UTC.

012022-07-08 20:00:00 UTC to 2022-07-08 21:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsJul 8, 20:002022-07-08 21:00:00 UTC to 2022-07-08 22:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJul 8, 21:00

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Jul 8, 20:002022-07-08 20:00:00 UTC2022-07-08 21:00:00 UTC110
Jul 8, 21:002022-07-08 21:00:00 UTC2022-07-08 22:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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The whole package has now been deprecated by the maintainer: 'PyPI wants me to enable 2FA just because I maintain this package, and both that and the mess resulting from a stunt of mine, I thought it'd be a good time to deprecate this package. Python 3 has os.replace and os.rename which probably do well enough of a job for most usecases.' https://github.com/untitaker/python-atomicwrites Edit: From the bug report 'I decided to deprecate this package. While I do regret to have deleted the package and did end up enabling 2FA, I think PyPI's sudden change in rules and bizarre behavior wrt package deletion doesn't make it worth my time to maintain Python software of this popularity for free. I'd rather just write code for fun and only worry about supply chain security when I'm actually paid to do so.' I can see the maintainers point, even if i
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In Atomicwrites' old versions have been purged from PyPI

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