Locking a file under Windows

[Gregory Piñero]

I'd be more worried about two users writing to the file at the same time.  I
don't have much experience in that area though so maybe someone could chime
in on if that's a legitimate worry or not.

-Greg


On 11/24/05, Tim Golden <tim.golden at viacom-outdoor.co.uk> wrote:
>
> [Guy Lateur]
> > I'm working on an application that will be used by several users at
> the same
> > time. The user should be able to both read and write to some data file
>
> > stored on our file server. My question is: how can I prevent that one
> user
> > writes to the file while another user is reading it?
>
> Might be worth looking in the Python Cookbook area. I seem
> to remember several recipes to do this kind of thing
> cross-platform. eg,
>
> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/65203
>
> Also the pywin32 docs come with a flock-style example. Hope
> one of the two can help you.
>
> TJG
>
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