Possible to open a file for shared write mode under Windows?

[Chris Colbert]

It's not too difficult:

# subp.py

import sys
import time

for i in range(10):
    sys.stdout.write('I am subprocess\n')
    sys.stdout.flush()  # this may not be necessary
    time.sleep(1)

# writer.py

import subprocess
import time

subp = subprocess.Popen(['/usr/bin/python', '-u', './subp.py'],
stdout=subprocess.PIPE)

while True:
    time.sleep(1)
    print('I am main process.') # write this to one section of the file

    if subp.poll() != None: # the subprocess has terminated
        break

    stdout = subp.stdout.readline()
    print(stdout) # write this to the other section



brucewayne at broo:~/Documents$ python ./writer.py
I am main process.
I am subprocess

I am main process.
I am subprocess

I am main process.
I am subprocess

I am main process.
I am subprocess

I am main process.
I am subprocess

I am main process.
I am subprocess

I am main process.
I am subprocess

I am main process.
I am subprocess

I am main process.
I am subprocess

I am main process.
I am subprocess

I am main process.



On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 12:52 AM, Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote:

> Chris Colbert wrote:
> [top-posting switched to bottom-posting]
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 12:20 AM, Gabriel Genellina
> > <gagsl-py2 at yahoo.com.ar <mailto:gagsl-py2 at yahoo.com.ar>> wrote:
> >
> >     En Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:42:46 -0300, <python at bdurham.com
> >     <mailto:python at bdurham.com>> escribió:
> >
> >
> >         Is there a way to open a file for shared write mode under
> >         Windows?
> >
> >         I have 2 processes that will write to different regions of this
> >         shared file.
> >
> >
> >     Using the pywin32 package at sourceforge, you have access to the
> >     CreateFile function:
> >     http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363858(v=VS.85).aspx
> >     You want dwShareMode=FILE_SHARE_WRITE
> >
> > you could also just have one process do the writing for both processes
> > via pipes.
>
> You could, but then you'd have to work out how to avoid blocking on one
> pipe when data was available form the other. Or is this trivially easy,
> and I just don't know enough about pipes?
>
> regards
>  Steve
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