# 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 Exceptions: LockException Notes: For the 'nt' platform, this module requires the Python Extensions for Windows. Be aware that this may not work as expected on Windows 95/98/ME. History: 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 , Lowell Alleman , Rick van Hattem Version: 0.3 URL: https://github.com/WoLpH/portalocker """ __all__ = [ "lock", "unlock", "LOCK_EX", "LOCK_SH", "LOCK_NB", "LockException", ] import os class LockException(Exception): # Error codes: LOCK_FAILED = 1 if os.name == 'nt': import win32con import win32file import pywintypes 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() elif os.name == 'posix': import fcntl LOCK_EX = fcntl.LOCK_EX LOCK_SH = fcntl.LOCK_SH LOCK_NB = fcntl.LOCK_NB else: raise RuntimeError("PortaLocker only defined for nt and posix platforms") if os.name == 'nt': def lock(file, flags): hfile = win32file._get_osfhandle(file.fileno()) try: win32file.LockFileEx(hfile, flags, 0, -0x10000, __overlapped) except pywintypes.error, exc_value: # error: (33, 'LockFileEx', 'The process cannot access the file because another process has locked a portion of the file.') if exc_value[0] == 33: raise LockException(LockException.LOCK_FAILED, exc_value[2]) else: # Q: Are there exceptions/codes we should be dealing with here? raise def unlock(file): hfile = win32file._get_osfhandle(file.fileno()) try: win32file.UnlockFileEx(hfile, 0, -0x10000, __overlapped) except pywintypes.error, exc_value: if exc_value[0] == 158: # error: (158, 'UnlockFileEx', 'The segment is already unlocked.') # To match the 'posix' implementation, silently ignore this error pass else: # Q: Are there exceptions/codes we should be dealing with here? raise elif os.name == 'posix': def lock(file, flags): try: fcntl.flock(file.fileno(), flags) except IOError, exc_value: # The exception code varies on different systems so we'll catch # every IO error raise LockException(*exc_value) def unlock(file): fcntl.flock(file.fileno(), fcntl.LOCK_UN) if __name__ == '__main__': from time import time, strftime, localtime import sys import portalocker log = open('log.txt', "a+") portalocker.lock(log, portalocker.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()