How to implement a file lock ??

[Alan Kennedy]

[ionel]
> is there a cross-platform library or module for file locking?
> or at least a win32 implementation.
> 
> i'm trying to get a lock on some file in a cgi script. ( i got my data
> erased a few times :P )

portalocker - Cross-platform (posix/nt) API for flock-style file locking.

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/65203

HTH,

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