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File-based locks for Python on Linux and Windows

Last release 4 years ago
no release in 18 months
Ships fairly regularly
a new release about every 2.3 years
Rarely documented
notes for 1 of 5 stable releases
Nothing withdrawn
no release was ever pulled
14 years old
5 releases · first in 2013

Release timeline

5 releases since 2013

2013201520172019

Releases

1.0.020 Apr 2022
This project publishes no release notes. Between 0.2.1 and 1.0.0 there were 20 commits, 16 of them substantive:
This project publishes no release notes. Between 0.2.1 and 1.0.0 there were 20 commits, 16 of them substantive:

Fix #7: better file locking on Windows

Use native Windows types

Address review comments

Run tests on Windows

Drop Python 3.4 support

Fix formatting in README

Explicitly mention LockError in README

Close file when acquire() fails

Raise LockError when calling release on an unlocked lock

Use time.monotonic() when available

Add explicit support for Python 3.10

Update makefile

Replace nose with pytest

Update README

Fix tests on Windows

Fix wording of description
0.2.119 Jan 2021
This project publishes no release notes. Between 0.2.0 and 0.2.1 there were 24 commits, 22 of them substantive:
This project publishes no release notes. Between 0.2.0 and 0.2.1 there were 24 commits, 22 of them substantive:

Use setuptools instead of distutils

Fix formatting in README.rst

Update .travis.yml to use tox

Explicitly list Python versions in .travis.yml

Support Python 3.5 and 3.6

Fix #5: make sure it is sane to use different timeouts on the same file (#6)

Clarify test

Add comment on reason for test

Add test explicitly checking file lock identity

Add explicit timeout to test

Remove FreeBSD reference from LICENSE

Update supported Python versions to 2.7 and >= 3.4

Update Python versions in tox.ini

Add python_requires to setup.py

Add license to setup.py

remove unused attr

Replace Travis with GitHub Actions

Add explicit support for Python 3.9

Update LICENSE for consistency

Add installation instructions to README

…and 2 more.

0.2.019 May 2015

This project publishes no release notes. Between 0.1.1 and 0.2.0 there were 24 commits, 23 of them substantive:

This project publishes no release notes. Between 0.1.1 and 0.2.0 there were 24 commits, 23 of them substantive:

Add author_email to setup.py
Update makefile
Mark test function as not being a test itself
Use spur.local 0.3.6 instead of spur 0.2.x
Get the tests passing on Python 3
Add tox.ini
Update .gitignore
Add .travis.yml
Add py34 to tox.ini
Add classifiers to setup.py
Use README.rst instead of README.md
Simplify MANIEST.in
whitespace
Add thread lock onto lock_file
try/except/finally blocks for thread_lock
naked raise after thread lock release
Extract non-blocking acquire code
Prevent same lock object from being acquired twice
Ensure that same path cannot be acquired twice
Ensure that lock files are reused

…and 3 more.