I haven't tested this. There is probably a better way of doing this looking at process information. I use a lock file to mark that the program is already running. The problem is that for an abrupt shutdown the file might not be removed.
import atexit if os.path.exists(lockfile): print "there is an instance already running" else: file(lockfile, "w").close() atexit.register(lambda:os.remove(lockfile)) //Your code here On Apr 9, 2005 2:32 PM, Sidharth Kuruvila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I haven't tested this. There is probably a better way of doing this > looking at process information. I use a lock file to mark that the > program is already running. The problem is that for an abrupt shutdown > the file might not be removed. > > import atexit > if os.path.exists(lockfile): > print "there is an instance already running" > else: > file(lockfile, "w").close() > atexit.register(lambda:os.remove(lockfile)) > > //Your code here > > On Apr 9, 2005 2:01 PM, Fabio Pliger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > is it possibile, in python, to check for an already running instance of an > > application? > > My problem is that, if my program i running and the user relaunch it, i > > don't want to open a new instance and have to instances of the same program > > running togheter... > > Can someone help me on this? > > Fabio P. > > > > -- > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > > > > -- > http://blogs.applibase.net/sidharth > -- http://blogs.applibase.net/sidharth -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
