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Simply: when unlocking files on windows 7, using python 3.5.2, files are deleted.

If the process somehow fails to remove the lockfile, e.g. because the process (or system) crashes, the lockfile is left in place.

I think that this can be dealt with simply by attempting to remove the lockfile; if the process holding the lock is still alive, this will raise an error, otherwise the lockfile is deleted and the lock can be acquired by the current process. Though perhaps I am missing something? edit: That only works on Windows

Can I use this lock in read-only directory ? How you handle this issue.

Thanks

Hi it is actually quite non-trivial to test that this is actually working. An example of (two I guess) codes to run that show that it is actually working would be great. (Plus it would immediately show an example of how the locking should be used.)