On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 1:59 PM, Christian Gollwitzer <aurio...@gmx.de> wrote: > Am 31.03.15 um 21:17 schrieb Ian Kelly: >> flock locks are per-process; they won't help for synchronizing access >> between competing threads in the same process. >> > > Ok. But if it is really all in one process, then a classical mutex would do, > wouldn't it? I'm not experienced with threading in Python, but it seems from > the documentation, that threading.Lock() works like a mutex.
As long as there's not *also* some other external process that needs to access the file occasionally. :-) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list