[Python-ideas] Cross-platform lockfile (was: Implementation of shutil.move)

[David Townshend]

As far as I can make out, this package is designed to lock files from access
by different threads within a program by using a ".lock" file. I can't see
how this could lock a file from external modification.

On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 7:27 AM, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au>wrote:

> Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda at gmail.com>
> writes:
>
> > As far as I am aware, locked files are impossible to do in a
> > cross-platform way
>
> The ‘lockfile’ library <URL:http://pypi.python.org/pypi/lockfile> is an
> attempt to implement cross-platform lockfile functionality.
>
> I would like that library to be part of the Python standard library, but
> I think the current maintainer (Skip Montanaro) no longer has the
> available time to get that done.
>
> Anyone care to work with me on getting ‘lockfile’ into the Python
> standard library?
>
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