Open file handles?

[Hari Sekhon]

danielx wrote:
> Is there an equivalent in windows?
>
> Jon wrote:
>   
>> Perhaps using os you could work with lsof
>> [http://www.linuxcommand.org/man_pages/lsof8.html]
>>
>> Jon
>>
>> Thomas Bartkus wrote:
>>     
>>> This may be more of a Linux question, but I'm doing this from Python. .....
>>>
>>> How can I know if anything (I don't care who or what!) is in the middle of
>>> using a particular file?
>>>
>>> This comes in context of needing to copy a file BUT only if I can verify
>>> that something else doesn't have an open write handle to that file.  IOW - I
>>> need to decline the operation if something else hasn't finished writing to
>>> the file.
>>>
>>> How can I know?
>>> Thomas Bartkus
>>>       
>
>   

yes, handle by sysinternals.

www.sysinternals.com

not really a python question, more along the lines of bash, which is why 
I could answer it....

-h


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