urgent question, about filesystem-files

Gary Herron gherron at islandtraining.com
Thu Apr 10 04:40:30 EDT 2008


bvidinli wrote:
> i started python programming a few months ago.
>
> now i need the code to understand if a file already opened in
> filesystem by another process ?
>
> i looked at docs, howtos, but did not find related info.
> note that normal file open/write operations in python, i know it.
>
> i specificly need to know that "is a file already open by some other
> process other than python".
>
>
> Thank you in advance
>   

This is certainly an operating-system dependent bit of functionality.   
So first off, you are going to have to tell us *which* OS you're working 
on. 

Then, perhaps someone can help...

Gary Herron




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