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I followed discussion in the group about this problem:

ImportError: No module named fcntl

I found out there are two modules:
FCNTL
fcntl
the first one is obsolete and shouldn't be used.
But the second one is usable.

Unfortunately, there is no fcntl in my python installation (Python
2.3.3, I got it from python site for Windows). There is FCNTL.py which
is just a warning message and some imports.

Am I missing some files here. How could I have access to fcntl module.

Any help?

Thank you in advance.
Regards;

Omid Fatemi wrote:
> I followed discussion in the group about this problem:
>
> ImportError: No module named fcntl
>
> I found out there are two modules:
> FCNTL
> fcntl
> the first one is obsolete and shouldn't be used.
> But the second one is usable.
>
> Unfortunately, there is no fcntl in my python installation (Python
> 2.3.3, I got it from python site for Windows). There is FCNTL.py which
> is just a warning message and some imports.
>
> Am I missing some files here. How could I have access to fcntl module.

From the docs in http://docs.python.org/lib/module-fcntl.html

"""Availability: Unix."""

I don't know if there's an alternative. Presumably the archives
for the list would answer this clearly, since as you say others
have asked the question before.

-Peter

Dear Peter;
thank you for your response.
Does this mean that in Windows I can't use fcntl module.
If yes, what functions do you suggest to use instead of fcntl funtions.

I could see the funtions in posixfile are using fcntl functions.
Do you have any alternative for posixfile module?

Regards;

Peter Hansen <> wrote in message news:<w4mdncnRG8DIDh7cRVn->...
> Omid Fatemi wrote:
> > I followed discussion in the group about this problem:
> >
> > ImportError: No module named fcntl
> >
> > I found out there are two modules:
> > FCNTL
> > fcntl
> > the first one is obsolete and shouldn't be used.
> > But the second one is usable.
> >
> > Unfortunately, there is no fcntl in my python installation (Python
> > 2.3.3, I got it from python site for Windows). There is FCNTL.py which
> > is just a warning message and some imports.
> >
> > Am I missing some files here. How could I have access to fcntl module.
>
> From the docs in http://docs.python.org/lib/module-fcntl.html
>
> """Availability: Unix."""
>
> I don't know if there's an alternative. Presumably the archives
> for the list would answer this clearly, since as you say others
> have asked the question before.
>
> -Peter

> Does this mean that in Windows I can't use fcntl module.
> If yes, what functions do you suggest to use instead of fcntl funtions.
> I could see the funtions in posixfile are using fcntl functions.
> Do you have any alternative for posixfile module?

I don't use windows, so I can't help here - but what might give the
windows-gurus out there a hint how to help you would be to say what you
actually want to achieve - then they might know how to do that with
windows.
--
Regards,

Diez B. Roggisch

Omid Fatemi wrote:

> Dear Peter;
> thank you for your response.
> Does this mean that in Windows I can't use fcntl module.
> If yes, what functions do you suggest to use instead of fcntl funtions.
>
What are you using for documentation? In my "Global Module Index" it
says (in the module list):
....
fcntl (Unix)
....
posixfile (Unix)
....
> I could see the funtions in posixfile are using fcntl functions.
> Do you have any alternative for posixfile module?
>
I think you can take this as an indication without reading the source
that the Python modules are tied pretty closely to the Unix
functionality they provide, and therefore won;t be available on Windows
any time soon.

regards
Steve
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