I have a 3rd-party process that runs for about a minute and supports only a single execution at a time.
$ deploy If I want to launch a second process I have to wait until the first finishes. Having two users wanting to run at the same time might happen a few times a day. But, these users will not have the skills/patience to check whether someone else is currently running. I'd like my program to be able to detect that "deploy" is already running, tell the user, wait a minute, try again, repeat. I do not know whether anyone has had success with http://pythonhosted.org/lockfile/lockfile.html. I supose I could use http://code.google.com/p/psutil/ to check for a process with a particular name. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list