How to lock files (the easiest/best way)?

[Jim Segrave]

In article <12bldoi1v060k3d at corp.supernews.com>,
Jim Segrave  <jes at jes-2.demon.nl> wrote:
>        except OSError, e:
>            if e.errno != errno.EEXIST:

this should read:
             if e.errno != errno.ENOENT:

(it was left with EEXIST from testing this code by forcing an error,
as the code for this failure requires a very tight race condition to test)

>                sys.exit("%s exists but stat() failed: %s" %
>                         (lockfile, e.strerror))
>            # we didn't create the lockfile, so it did exist, but it's


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Jim Segrave           (jes at jes-2.demon.nl)