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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Lockfile hanling
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 19:44:46 -0400
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On Tue, 31 Mar 2015 16:50:12 +0200, Ervin Hegedüs <airween@gmail.com>
declaimed the following:

>Hello,
>
>there is an app, written in Python, which stores few bytes of
>datas in a single file. The application uses threads. Every
>thread can modify the file, but only one at a time. I'm using a
>lock file to prevent the multiple access.
>

	If there is only one instance of the application, and it is truly using
threads...

	The solution, to my mind, is to use a Python lock object around the
code that tries to modify the file.

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