Hi !
On windows, with PyWin32, to read this little sample-code : import time import win32file, win32con, pywintypes def flock(file): hfile = win32file._get_osfhandle(file.fileno()) win32file.LockFileEx(hfile, win32con.LOCKFILE_EXCLUSIVE_LOCK, 0, 0xffff, pywintypes.OVERLAPPED()) def funlock(file): hfile = win32file._get_osfhandle(file.fileno()) win32file.UnlockFileEx(hfile, 0, 0xffff, pywintypes.OVERLAPPED()) file = open("FLock.txt", "r+") flock(file) file.seek(123) for i in range(500): file.write("AAAAAAAAAA") print i time.sleep(0.001) #funlock(file) file.close() Michel Claveau -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list