How to get progress in python script.

[John Gordon]

In <mailman.1571.1348849432.27098.python-list at python.org> =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rolando_Ca=F1er_Roblejo?= <rolando.caner at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi all,

> Please, I need you suggest me a way to get statistics about a progress 
> of my python script. My python script could take a lot of time 
> processing a file, so I need a way that an external program check the 
> progress of the script. My first idea was that the python script write a 
> temp file showing the progress and the external program can check that 
> file, but I think might happen file read/write locking issues.

The external program should open the progress file for read only, so I
wouldn't think file locking would be an issue.

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