#!/usr/bin/env python # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- # portalocker.py - Cross-platform (posix/nt) API for flock-style file locking. # Requires python 1.5.2 or better. """ Cross-platform (posix/nt) API for flock-style file locking. Synopsis: import portalocker file = open(\"somefile\", \"r+\") portalocker.lock(file, portalocker.LOCK_EX) file.seek(12) file.write(\"foo\") file.close() If you know what you're doing, you may choose to portalocker.unlock(file) before closing the file, but why? Methods: lock( file, flags ) unlock( file ) Constants: LOCK_EX LOCK_SH LOCK_NB I learned the win32 technique for locking files from sample code provided by John Nielsen in the documentation that accompanies the win32 modules. Author: Jonathan Feinberg Version: $Id: portalocker.py,v 1.3 2001/05/29 18:47:55 Administrator Exp $ """ import os import logging import platform logger = logging.getLogger("web2py") os_locking = None try: import fcntl os_locking = 'posix' except: pass try: import win32con import win32file import pywintypes os_locking = 'windows' except: pass if os_locking == 'windows': LOCK_EX = win32con.LOCKFILE_EXCLUSIVE_LOCK LOCK_SH = 0 # the default LOCK_NB = win32con.LOCKFILE_FAIL_IMMEDIATELY # is there any reason not to reuse the following structure? __overlapped = pywintypes.OVERLAPPED() def lock(file, flags): hfile = win32file._get_osfhandle(file.fileno()) win32file.LockFileEx(hfile, flags, 0, 0x7fff0000, __overlapped) def unlock(file): hfile = win32file._get_osfhandle(file.fileno()) win32file.UnlockFileEx(hfile, 0, 0x7fff0000, __overlapped) elif os_locking == 'posix': LOCK_EX = fcntl.LOCK_EX LOCK_SH = fcntl.LOCK_SH LOCK_NB = fcntl.LOCK_NB def lock(file, flags): fcntl.flock(file.fileno(), flags) def unlock(file): fcntl.flock(file.fileno(), fcntl.LOCK_UN) else: if platform.system() == 'Windows': logger.error('no file locking, you must install the win32 extensions from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/files/') else: logger.debug('no file locking, this will cause problems') LOCK_EX = None LOCK_SH = None LOCK_NB = None def lock(file, flags): pass def unlock(file): pass if __name__ == '__main__': from time import time, strftime, localtime import sys log = open('log.txt', 'a+') lock(log, LOCK_EX) timestamp = strftime('%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S\n', localtime(time())) log.write(timestamp) print 'Wrote lines. Hit enter to release lock.' dummy = sys.stdin.readline() log.close()