exclusive shelve open

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Sun, 29 Apr 2007 17:13:42 -0300, <castironpi at gmail.com> escribió:

> On Apr 29, 2:12 pm, castiro... at gmail.com wrote:
>> I'm trying to be safe and make sure only one python instance opens the
>> shelf.  Any ideas?
> Using Windows.

Use the locking function in the msvcrt module to lock/unlock the file.  
Locking just the first byte is enough.

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Gabriel Genellina