Hari Sekhon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Seeing as there doesn't seem to be a good answer to this (or at least > not one that we have so far some up with) I have decided to fall back > to my old friend the unix shell. It's as portable as python, but is > very flexible and fast at doing real things and will tell me if > another process by this name is running. If so, print msg and > exit. simple.
Huh? The obvious way to check for another instance is with a lock file. Just open the file and use fcntl to set an exclusive lock. If the lock acquisition fails, another instance has the file. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
