File locking

[A.M. Kuchling]

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Content preview:  What is the correct solution for doing file locking in Python
   programs? The docs for the posixfile module say: Note: This module will become
   obsolete in a future release. The locking operation that it provides is done
   better and more portably by the fcntl.lockf() call. [...] 

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