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Subject Storage atomic writeLevel Mid–Senior~18 minCommon in Storage & CDN · Concurrency interviewsIndustries Software development

Question

Review this Python function that updates a state file consumed by another process.

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Separate real bugs from style. Rank issues by severity, point at the root cause rather than the symptom, and suggest a concrete fix — specific and kind.

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import json def write_state(path, state):    with open(path, "w") as f:        for key, value in state.items():            f.write(json.dumps({key: value}) + "\n")    return True
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