import fcntl from collections.abc import Generator from contextlib import contextmanager from pathlib import Path @contextmanager def locked_open(filename: str | Path, mode: str = "r") -> Generator: """ This is a context manager that provides an advisory write lock on the file specified by `filename` when entering the context, and releases the lock when leaving the context. The lock is acquired using the `fcntl` module's `LOCK_EX` flag, which applies an exclusive write lock to the file. """ with open(filename, mode) as fd: fcntl.flock(fd, fcntl.LOCK_EX) yield fd fcntl.flock(fd, fcntl.LOCK_UN)