如果多个进程，或者多个独立程序要写同一个文件，那么就存在大家同时写文件的可能，这就不妙了，数据可能会出问题。最近在网上找到一个开源的python实现，有效简洁，列出来分析下代码看看：
文件名：lockfile.py，内容如下，有部分注释加了中文，添加了一些注释。

import os
import time
import errno
 
class FileLockException(Exception):
    pass
 
class FileLock(object):
    """ A file locking mechanism that has context-manager support so 
        you can use it in a with statement. This should be relatively cross
        compatible as it doesn't rely on msvcrt or fcntl for the locking.
    """
 
    def __init__(self, file_name, timeout=10, delay=.05):
        """ Prepare the file locker. Specify the file to lock and optionally
            the maximum timeout and the delay between each attempt to lock.
        """
        self.is_locked = False
        self.lockfile = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), "%s.lock" % file_name)
        self.file_name = file_name
        self.timeout = timeout
        self.delay = delay
 
 
    def acquire(self):
        """ Acquire the lock, if possible. If the lock is in use, it check again
            every `wait` seconds. It does this until it either gets the lock or
            exceeds `timeout` number of seconds, in which case it throws 
            an exception.
        """
        start_time = time.time()
        while True:
            try:
                #独占式打开文件
                self.fd = os.open(self.lockfile, os.O_CREAT|os.O_EXCL|os.O_RDWR)
                break;
            except OSError as e:
                if e.errno != errno.EEXIST:
                    raise 
                if (time.time() - start_time) >= self.timeout:
                    raise FileLockException("Timeout occured.")
                time.sleep(self.delay)
        self.is_locked = True
 
 
    def release(self):
        """ Get rid of the lock by deleting the lockfile. 
            When working in a `with` statement, this gets automatically 
            called at the end.
        """
        #关闭文件，删除文件
        if self.is_locked:
            os.close(self.fd)
            os.unlink(self.lockfile)
            self.is_locked = False
 
 
    def __enter__(self):
        """ Activated when used in the with statement. 
            Should automatically acquire a lock to be used in the with block.
        """
        if not self.is_locked:
            self.acquire()
        return self
 
 
    def __exit__(self, type, value, traceback):
        """ Activated at the end of the with statement.
            It automatically releases the lock if it isn't locked.
        """
        if self.is_locked:
            self.release()
 
 
    def __del__(self):
        """ Make sure that the FileLock instance doesn't leave a lockfile
            lying around.
        """
        self.release()

"""
#use as:
from filelock import FileLock
with FileLock("myfile.txt"):
    # work with the file as it is now locked
    print("Lock acquired.")
"""

用法比较有意思，使用with关键字。对with关键字来说，FileLock类先执行__enter__函数，然后，执行with块里的那些代码，执行完了之后，再执行__exit__函数，等价于相当于如下形式：
try:
    执行 __enter__的内容
    执行 with_block.
finally:
    执行 __exit__内容
FileLock在__enter__函数独占式创建或打开一个文件，这个文件不会被其他程序或者进程再次创建或者打开，由此形成lock，执行完代码，在__exit__里，关闭并删除文件