Check if a file is closed

Tim Golden tim.golden at viacom-outdoor.co.uk
Mon Jun 19 05:54:48 EDT 2006


[camillo at rockit.it]

| How to check if a file is closed?
| 
| On Win32 you can call CreateFile with write and share write and if it
| raises an error, the file is closed.
| 
| How to do it in Python???

It's not clear whether you want a cross-platform Python-only
solution. But if all you want is a way to use the Win32
CreateFile API in Python, then:

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/ActivePython/2.4/pywin32/win32file
__CreateFile_meth.html

TJG

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