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Wraps the portalocker recipe for easy usage

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Overview

Portalocker is a library to provide an easy API to file locking.

Originally created as a Python Recipe by Jonathan Feinberg and Lowell Alleman http://code.activestate.com/recipes/65203-portalocker-cross-platform-posixnt-api-for-flock-s/

Examples

To lock a file exclusively, use the lock method:

>>> import portalocker
>>> file = open("somefile", "r+")
>>> portalocker.lock(file, portalocker.LOCK_EX)
>>> file.seek(12)
>>> file.write("foo")
>>> file.close()

There is no explicit need to unlock the file as it is automatically unlocked after file.close(). If you still feel the need to manually unlock a file than you can do it like this:

>>> portalocker.unlock(file)

Do note that your data might still be in a buffer so it is possible that your data is not available until you flush() or close().

Contact

The module is maintaned by Rick van Hattem <Rick.van.Hattem@Fawo.nl>. The project resides at https://github.com/WoLpH/portalocker . Bugs and feature requests can be submitted there. Patches are also very welcome.

Changelog

See CHANGELOG file

License

see the LICENSE file

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