"Tom Wright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió en el mensaje news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I'm writing a program which reads a series of data files as they are > dumped > into a directory by another process. At the moment, it gets sporadic bugs > when it tries to read files which are only partially written. > > I'm looking for a function which will tell me if a file is opened in > write-mode by another process - if it is, my program will ignore it for > now > and come back to it later. This needs to work on linux and windows. Mac > OS would be a bonus too. An os-independent solution would be good, but I > could write os-specific options and have it pick the appropriate one. Use os.open with the O_EXCL flag; will fail if the other process has the file still open (and will fail if another process is reading the file, too, not just if someone is writing). -- Gabriel Genellina -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
