[Tutor] exception not raised XP file ?

[Dave S]

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