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[Tim Evans]

"John Burton" <john.burton at jbmail.com> writes:

> Are there any python facilities for synchronising access to a resource from
> two seperate processes running python programs? Semaphores etc? Or do I have
> to drop down to calling OS facilities. I didn't see anything but sometimes
> it's hard to know what to look for,..

I'm assuming that you're using win32...

Look at the win32event.CreateMutex function, part of the win32all
extensions.

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Python/Reference/Products/ActivePython/PythonWin32Extensions/win32event__CreateMutex_meth.html

-- 
Tim Evans