Locking a file in Python

Question

I need to lock a file for writing in Python. It will be accessed from multiple Python processes at once. I have found some solutions online, but most fail for my purposes as

Answer 1

I have been looking at several solutions to do that and my choice has been oslo.concurrency

It's powerful and relatively well documented. It's based on fasteners.

Other solutions:

• Portalocker: requires pywin32, which is an exe installation, so not possible via pip
• fasteners: poorly documented
• lockfile: deprecated
• flufl.lock: NFS-safe file locking for POSIX systems.
• simpleflock : Last update 2013-07
• zc.lockfile : Last update 2016-06 (as of 2017-03)
• lock_file : Last update in 2007-10