Exclusively opening a file

[fcdimitr]

When working through the DBASE environment, there is an option to open a file "exclusively", so that other applications wait on the released lock, before altering the table content.

Is there an option to get/check/release this lock through this module? Do you have any idea on how we would approach such an issue? Perhaps I could contribute such a functionality, if you have any tips/ideas on how to pursue this problem.

Thanks for an amazing package!

[Kodiologist]

I'm just some guy passing through with little knowledge of the format, but perhaps dBase uses the operating system's native lock functions. You can use these in Python with the standard module fcntl.

[fcdimitr]

Following up on this, is there any way to lock a record in the file? We have a legacy server with DBF files used by multiple programs, and we are trying to migrate each one. It would be great if I could change each one to Python codes, where I can still update the old files without interfering with other programs.

Any ideas? Thank you!