looking for blocking on read of a real file (not socket or pipe)

[Fredrik Lundh]

<elbertlev at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I doubt that the recipe you recomended will work at all in the case of
> different processes. To do this right file has to be open in shared
> mode (by both programs). Python does not support shared access.
> In the case of one program, but different threads probably this will
> work.

do you always assume that everyone uses the same operating system as
you do?  (even if the user agent they used to post the message doesn't run
on your operating system... ;-)

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