Is there an equivalent in windows? Jon wrote: > Perhaps using os you could work with lsof > [http://www.linuxcommand.org/man_pages/lsof8.html] > > Jon > > Thomas Bartkus wrote: > > This may be more of a Linux question, but I'm doing this from Python. ..... > > > > How can I know if anything (I don't care who or what!) is in the middle of > > using a particular file? > > > > This comes in context of needing to copy a file BUT only if I can verify > > that something else doesn't have an open write handle to that file. IOW - I > > need to decline the operation if something else hasn't finished writing to > > the file. > > > > How can I know? > > Thomas Bartkus
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