Distributed locking

[Piet van Oostrum]

>>>>> James <rent.lupin.road at gmail.com> (J) wrote:

>J> Hey all, I'm looking for suggestions on how to tackle distributed
>J> locking across several Python programs on several different machines.

Have you looked at the multiprocessing package? It has distributed
Locks's with timeouts which might well fit your requirements.
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