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singleton - Python: single instance of program - Stack Overflow

up vote 25 down vote favorite 22 share [g+] share [fb] share [tw]	Is there a Pythonic way to have only one instance of a program running? The only reasonable solution I've come up with is trying to run it as a server on some port, then second program trying to bind to same port - fails. But it's not really a great idea, maybe there's something more lightweight than this? (Take into consideration that program is expected to fail sometimes, i.e. segfault - so things like "lock file" won't work) Update: the solutions offered are much more complex and less reliant than just having a port occupied with a non-existent server, so I'd have to go with that one. python singleton locking link | edit | retag | flag edited Oct 21 '11 at 17:07 A-B-B 71  5 asked Dec 19 '08 at 12:42 Slava N 948  1 11 24 87% accept rate
	upvote   flag Perhaps your life would be easier if you tracked down and fixed the segfault. Not that it's an easy thing to do. –  David Locke Dec 19 '08 at 15:53   upvote   flag It's not in my library, it's in python's libxml bindings and extremely shy - fires only once a couple days. –  Slava N Dec 20 '08 at 17:51 2 upvote   flag Python's standard library supports flock(), which is The Right Thing for modern UNIX programs. Opening a port uses a spot in a much more constrained namespace, whereas pidfiles are more complex as you need to check running processes to invalidate them safely; flock has neither problem. –  Charles Duffy Dec 20 '08 at 19:02 add comment
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The above code should do the job, it is cross-platform and runs on Python 2.4-3.2. I tested it on Windows, OS X and Linux. from tendo import singleton me = singleton.SingleInstance() # will sys.exit(-1) if other instance is running The latest code version is available singleton.py. Please file bugs here. You can install tend using one of the following methods: easy_install tendo pip install tendo manually by getting it from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/tendo

posted on 2012-04-24 10:28  lexus 阅读( ...) 评论( ...) 编辑 收藏

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