Locking files? n stuff

[Sposhua]

On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, _martin_ wrote:

> I'm new to this so here's a little background...

So am I ;-)

> I'm writing a guestbook (and eventually counters) in Python and wondered:
> Do I need to worry about locking and unlocking files
> If I do, can anyone let me know which command to use (flock, fcntl.lock, etc. ?)

http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-fcntl.html

(or shelve)