[Guy Lateur] > I'm working on an application that will be used by several users at the same > time. The user should be able to both read and write to some data file
> stored on our file server. My question is: how can I prevent that one user > writes to the file while another user is reading it? Might be worth looking in the Python Cookbook area. I seem to remember several recipes to do this kind of thing cross-platform. eg, http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/65203 Also the pywin32 docs come with a flock-style example. Hope one of the two can help you. TJG ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk ________________________________________________________________________ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
