On Saturday 18 November 2006 16:08, Roel Schroeven wrote: > Dave S schreef: > > Due to some sloppy programming on a commercial app :) I have a problem. > > > > I have some directories on an XP machine, I need to know which of these > > directories (*.cab_tmp) contains a file that that is being accessed by > > another XP program. > > To me the easiest solution seems to be using Process Explorer or Handle > from Sysinternals (at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals > currently). > > At first sight your Python solution looks good to me; I don't know why > it doesn't work. > > Another approach I have used in the past is trying to rename the > directory instead of trying to open a file in that directory: Windows > cannot rename the directory when some program has a file open in that > directory. At least that's my experience.
Thanks for the tip :) Is it just me - I seem to run into a lot of weird behaviour in windows (but then I am a Linux Junky :) Dave _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
