js wrote: > How about using lock? > Let writing process locks the files before writing, and unlock after > the job's done.
Is locking mandatory or co-operative? I don't have any control over the process which is doing the writing, so if it's co-operative it's no good to me. If it's mandatory, then I can try to acquire a lock on the file - if this fails or blocks, then the other process must have it open. Will this work? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list