I am not an expert, but if I got you correctly, what you want to achieve is a "singleton": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singleton_pattern if you watch at the sample implementation, there is a Python example too.
Mac. On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 10:45 -0500, shawn bright wrote: > Hey all, > > I have an app that runs in a GUI written in pygtk. It spawns several > threads, and runs all the time. > It is mission critical that we can never have two instances of this > running at once. > > So, my question is, how can i write something that will know if there > is an instance of that something already running? > > I am doing this in python 2.5 on Ubuntu, if that matters ( which i > suspect it does ). > > thanks, > shawn > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
