Sometimes, we want to lock a file in Python.
In this article, we’ll look at how to lock a file in Python.
How to lock a file in Python?
To lock a file in Python, we can use the filelock library.
To install it, we run
pip install filelock
Then we use it by writing
from filelock import FileLock
with FileLock("myfile.txt"):
# ...
print("Lock acquired.")
to create FileLock object with the path to lock the file at the path that we passed into FileLock.
And then we run the code we want on the file with the file locked.
Then the file will be closed when everything is run since we used with when we lock the file.
Conclusion
To lock a file in Python, we can use the filelock library.
