How to tell when a file is closed

[Emile van Sebille]

I automated an app this year and ended up using:

def waitForFile(fileName, waitForChange=1):
    print "in waitForFile waiting on %s " % fileName
    while 1:
        if os.path.isfile(fileName):
            break
        else:
            time.sleep(3)
    sStats = os.stat(fileName)
    time.sleep(3)
    while waitForChange:
        fStats = os.stat(fileName)
        if fStats != sStats:
            sStats = fStats
            time.sleep(3)
        else:
            break

I certainly wouldn't depend on it in all cases, but it does what I need in
this case.

HTH,

--

Emile van Sebille
emile at fenx.com

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"Peter Curran" <Pcurran at intraspect.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.1002295686.29143.python-list at python.org...
> Simple problem:  I have an exe that creates a new file.  I call this exe
> from python with execfile, but I don't know how to tell when the exe I
> called is finished writing its file.  Without using any of the extra Win32
> modules, how can I tell when the exe is finished?  Would os.path.isfile
> work?  Are there other utilities?  If it helps, I'm actually doing this
from
> jpython -- maybe there's a java class that does this nicely?  Any ideas
out
> there?
>
> Thank You!
>
> -Peter
>
>