Compatibility layer for legacy atomicwrites users, powered by safeatomic.

The original atomicwrites project by Markus Unterwaditzer is no longer maintained after PyPI's 2FA enforcement.
This repository is a from-scratch rewrite that keeps the historic atomicwrites API but delegates all file operations to the actively maintained safeatomic package.

• Preserve drop-in compatibility with existing atomicwrites-based code.
• Allow seamless migration to safeatomic without changing existing imports.
• Maintain API stability for projects that cannot refactor immediately.

pip install https://github.com/atomic-libs/safeatomic
pip install https://github.com/atomic-libs/python-atomicwrites

Note: The python-atomicwrites package is just a thin wrapper and requires safeatomic to be installed.

The API matches the original atomicwrites module:

from atomicwrites import atomic_write, replace_atomic, move_atomic, AtomicWriter

# Write atomically to a file
with atomic_write("example.txt", overwrite=True) as f:
    f.write("Hello, world!")

# Replace a file atomically
replace_atomic("temp.txt", "target.txt")

# Move a file atomically
move_atomic("source.txt", "destination.txt")

• Original unmaintained repo: untitaker/python-atomicwrites
• PyPI page: atomicwrites