No more then 1 Instance of Application..

[Christoph Haas]

On Monday 13 March 2006 18:31, Math wrote:
> Does anybody know what I have to do to run only 1 instance of my Python
> Application?
> How do I check if I'm running more instances of a Application?

I would use lockfiles for that purpose. Like this:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/193488

I'm surprised that this is not in the standard library.

If you are not familiar with lockfiles: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_locking

Kindly
 Christoph
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