https://github.com/wolph/portalocker

distributed lock locking python

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An easy library for Python file locking. It works on Windows, Linux, BSD and Unix systems and can even perform distributed locking. Naturally it also supports the with statement.

Host: GitHub
URL: https://github.com/wolph/portalocker
Owner: wolph
License: bsd-3-clause
Created: 2011-02-23T11:42:47.000Z (over 15 years ago)
Default Branch: develop
Last Pushed: 2026-08-21T01:26:21.000Z (5 days ago)
Last Synced: 2026-08-21T22:27:38.218Z (4 days ago)
Topics: distributed, lock, locking, python
Language: Python
Homepage: http://portalocker.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Size: 2.6 MB
Stars: 325
Watchers: 8
Forks: 56
Open Issues: 0
Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.rst
- Changelog: CHANGELOG.rst
- Funding: .github/FUNDING.yml
- License: LICENSE
Funding:
- Github: wolph

Owner metadata:

Name: Rick van Hattem
Login: wolph
Email:
Kind: user
Description: Author of @mastering-python and entrepreneur interested in scaling large and complicated systems.
Website: http://wol.ph/
Location: Amsterdam
Twitter:
Company:
Icon url: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/270571?u=651a69d6d376fe0fb407e1b611bc9ce12aeba2bc&v=4
Repositories: 263
Last Synced at: 2024-05-01T11:19:42.285Z
Profile URL: https://github.com/wolph

GitHub Events

Total

Create event: 11
Delete event: 9
Fork event: 1
Issue comment event: 23
Issues event: 18
Pull request event: 9
Push event: 97
Release event: 4
Watch event: 34
Total: 206

Last Year

Create event: 4
Delete event: 4
Issue comment event: 4
Issues event: 1
Pull request event: 4
Push event: 17
Watch event: 7
Total: 41

Committers metadata

Last synced: 7 days ago

Total Commits: 593
Total Committers: 26
Avg Commits per committer: 22.808
Development Distribution Score (DDS): 0.123

Commits in past year: 134
Committers in past year: 2
Avg Commits per committer in past year: 67.0
Development Distribution Score (DDS) in past year: 0.045

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Issue and Pull Request metadata

Last synced: about 10 hours ago

Total issues: 85
Total pull requests: 64
Average time to close issues: 4 months
Average time to close pull requests: 21 days
Total issue authors: 60
Total pull request authors: 26
Average comments per issue: 3.09
Average comments per pull request: 2.47
Merged pull request: 52
Bot issues: 0
Bot pull requests: 12

Past year issues: 17
Past year pull requests: 21
Past year average time to close issues: about 17 hours
Past year average time to close pull requests: 15 days
Past year issue authors: 4
Past year pull request authors: 3
Past year average comments per issue: 1.24
Past year average comments per pull request: 1.71
Past year merged pull request: 15
Past year bot issues: 0
Past year bot pull requests: 9

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Package metadata

Total packages: 29
Total downloads:
- pypi: 65,516,942 last-month
- conda: 91,791 total
Total docker downloads: 641,300,373
Total dependent packages: 175 (may contain duplicates)
Total dependent repositories: 6,086 (may contain duplicates)
Total versions: 189
Total maintainers: 5

ubuntu-23.10: portalocker

Homepage: https://github.com/WoLpH/portalocker
Licenses: bsd-3-clause
Latest release: 2.2.1-1 (published 6 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-03-13T23:22:20.233Z (6 months ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 0.799%
- Forks count: 1.567%
- Stargazers count: 1.629%

pypi.org: portalocker

Cross-platform file locking, with Redis, PID-file and bounded-semaphore locks

Homepage:
Documentation: https://portalocker.readthedocs.io/
Licenses: BSD-3-Clause
Latest release: 4.2.0 (published 4 days ago)
Last Synced: 2026-08-24T13:38:34.627Z (1 day ago)
Versions: 50
Dependent Packages: 152
Dependent Repositories: 6,036
Downloads: 65,516,942 Last month
Docker Downloads: 641,300,373
Rankings:
- Downloads: 0.024%
- Dependent repos count: 0.122%
- Dependent packages count: 0.148%
- Docker downloads count: 0.268%
- Average: 2.231%
- Stargazers count: 5.355%
- Forks count: 7.469%
Maintainers (2)
- jhammudoglu
- wolph

proxy.golang.org: github.com/wolph/portalocker

Homepage:
Documentation: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/wolph/portalocker#section-documentation
Licenses: bsd-3-clause
Latest release: v4.2.0+incompatible (published 2 days ago)
Last Synced: 2026-08-24T13:35:07.170Z (1 day ago)
Versions: 39
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Stargazers count: 3.434%
- Forks count: 3.636%
- Average: 6.852%
- Dependent packages count: 9.56%
- Dependent repos count: 10.779%

proxy.golang.org: github.com/WoLpH/portalocker

Homepage:
Documentation: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/WoLpH/portalocker#section-documentation
Licenses: bsd-3-clause
Latest release: v4.2.0+incompatible (published 1 day ago)
Last Synced: 2026-08-24T13:45:58.324Z (1 day ago)
Versions: 39
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Stargazers count: 3.448%
- Forks count: 3.685%
- Average: 6.868%
- Dependent packages count: 9.56%
- Dependent repos count: 10.779%

spack.io: py-portalocker

Portalocker is a library to provide an easy API to file locking.

Homepage: https://github.com/WoLpH/portalocker
Licenses: []
Latest release: 3.2.0 (published 13 days ago)
Last Synced: 2026-08-24T13:34:18.100Z (1 day ago)
Versions: 3
Dependent Packages: 5
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Average: 11.147%
- Stargazers count: 14.103%
- Dependent packages count: 14.186%
- Forks count: 16.298%
Maintainers (1)
- adamjstewart

conda-forge.org: portalocker

Homepage: https://github.com/WoLpH/portalocker
Licenses: PSF-2.0
Latest release: 2.6.0 (published almost 4 years ago)
Last Synced: 2026-04-08T09:55:56.927Z (5 months ago)
Versions: 22
Dependent Packages: 18
Dependent Repositories: 25
Rankings:
- Dependent packages count: 3.533%
- Dependent repos count: 7.306%
- Average: 16.016%
- Stargazers count: 25.86%
- Forks count: 27.367%

anaconda.org: portalocker

An easy library for Python file locking. It works on Windows, Linux, BSD and Unix systems and can even perform distributed locking. Naturally it also supports the with statement.

Homepage: https://github.com/WoLpH/portalocker
Licenses: PSF-2.0
Latest release: 4.1.0 (published 15 days ago)
Last Synced: 2026-08-11T16:05:00.122Z (14 days ago)
Versions: 12
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 25
Downloads: 91,791 Total
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 30.287%
- Stargazers count: 38.366%
- Average: 39.985%
- Forks count: 40.091%
- Dependent packages count: 51.195%

debian-13: portalocker

Homepage: https://github.com/WoLpH/portalocker
Documentation: https://packages.debian.org/trixie/portalocker
Licenses: bsd-3-clause
Latest release: 3.1.1-1 (published 6 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-03-14T01:10:03.648Z (5 months ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%

ubuntu-23.04: portalocker

Homepage: https://github.com/WoLpH/portalocker
Licenses: bsd-3-clause
Latest release: 2.2.1-1 (published 7 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-03-11T12:05:15.247Z (6 months ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%

ubuntu-24.04: portalocker

Homepage: https://github.com/WoLpH/portalocker
Licenses: bsd-3-clause
Latest release: 2.2.1-1 (published 7 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-03-06T10:18:14.721Z (6 months ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:

guix: python-portalocker

Python library for file locking

Homepage: https://github.com/WoLpH/portalocker
Documentation: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/python-xyz.scm#n7861
Licenses: bsd-3
Latest release: 2.7.0 (published 6 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-04-27T16:35:48.171Z (4 months ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%

nixpkgs-24.05: python311Packages.portalocker

A library to provide an easy API to file locking

Homepage: https://github.com/WoLpH/portalocker
Documentation: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-24.05/pkgs/development/python-modules/portalocker/default.nix#L51
Licenses: Python-2.0
Latest release: 2.8.2 (published 7 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-03-07T07:10:14.377Z (6 months ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:

nixpkgs-23.11: python310Packages.portalocker

A library to provide an easy API to file locking

Homepage: https://github.com/WoLpH/portalocker
Documentation: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-23.11/pkgs/development/python-modules/portalocker/default.nix#L38
Licenses: Python-2.0
Latest release: 2.7.0 (published 7 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-04-10T23:01:22.112Z (5 months ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%
Maintainers (1)
- jonringer

ubuntu-22.04: portalocker

Homepage: https://github.com/WoLpH/portalocker
Licenses: bsd-3-clause
Latest release: 2.2.1-1 (published 6 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-03-13T19:43:38.318Z (6 months ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%

nixpkgs-24.11: python311Packages.portalocker

Library to provide an easy API to file locking

Homepage: https://github.com/WoLpH/portalocker
Documentation: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-24.11/pkgs/development/python-modules/portalocker/default.nix#L51
Licenses: Python-2.0
Latest release: 2.10.1 (published 7 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-04-21T15:04:41.600Z (4 months ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%

nixpkgs-23.11: python311Packages.portalocker

A library to provide an easy API to file locking

Homepage: https://github.com/WoLpH/portalocker
Documentation: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-23.11/pkgs/development/python-modules/portalocker/default.nix#L38
Licenses: Python-2.0
Latest release: 2.7.0 (published 7 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-03-07T10:36:04.205Z (6 months ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%
Maintainers (1)
- jonringer

nixpkgs-unstable: python314Packages.portalocker

Library to provide an easy API to file locking

Homepage: https://github.com/WoLpH/portalocker
Documentation: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-unstable/pkgs/development/python-modules/portalocker/default.nix#L50
Licenses: Python-2.0
Latest release: 3.2.0 (published 7 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-03-07T08:33:18.716Z (6 months ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:

ubuntu-20.04: portalocker

Homepage: https://github.com/WoLpH/portalocker
Licenses: bsd-3-clause
Latest release: 1.5.1-1 (published 6 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-03-13T19:32:52.481Z (6 months ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%

nixpkgs-unstable: python313Packages.portalocker

Library to provide an easy API to file locking

Homepage: https://github.com/WoLpH/portalocker
Documentation: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-unstable/pkgs/development/python-modules/portalocker/default.nix#L50
Licenses: Python-2.0
Latest release: 3.2.0 (published 7 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-04-03T10:07:50.559Z (5 months ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%

debian-10: portalocker

Homepage: https://github.com/WoLpH/portalocker
Documentation: https://packages.debian.org/buster/portalocker
Licenses: bsd-3-clause
Latest release: 1.3.0-1 (published 7 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-03-13T17:03:34.765Z (6 months ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%

debian-11: portalocker

Homepage: https://github.com/WoLpH/portalocker
Documentation: https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/portalocker
Licenses: bsd-3-clause
Latest release: 2.2.1-1 (published 7 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-03-14T03:21:10.787Z (5 months ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%

nixpkgs-24.11: python312Packages.portalocker

Library to provide an easy API to file locking

Homepage: https://github.com/WoLpH/portalocker
Documentation: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-24.11/pkgs/development/python-modules/portalocker/default.nix#L51
Licenses: Python-2.0
Latest release: 2.10.1 (published 7 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-03-08T06:21:28.252Z (6 months ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%

gentoo-portage: dev-python/portalocker

A library for Python file locking

Homepage: https://github.com/WoLpH/portalocker/
Documentation: https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/dev-python/portalocker
Licenses: BSD
Latest release: 4.0.0 (published 24 days ago)
Last Synced: 2026-08-03T02:04:06.029Z (23 days ago)
Versions: 2
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%

ubuntu-24.10: portalocker

Homepage: https://github.com/WoLpH/portalocker
Licenses: bsd-3-clause
Latest release: 2.2.1-1 (published 7 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-03-09T10:29:02.269Z (6 months ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%

debian-12: portalocker

Homepage: https://github.com/WoLpH/portalocker
Documentation: https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/portalocker
Licenses: bsd-3-clause
Latest release: 2.2.1-1 (published 6 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-03-13T13:40:49.697Z (6 months ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%

nixpkgs-23.05: python311Packages.portalocker

A library to provide an easy API to file locking

Homepage: https://github.com/WoLpH/portalocker
Documentation: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-23.05/pkgs/development/python-modules/portalocker/default.nix#L40
Licenses: Python-2.0
Latest release: 2.7.0 (published 7 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-04-14T13:00:20.588Z (4 months ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%
Maintainers (1)
- jonringer

openbsd-7.9-amd64: devel/py-portalocker

easy Python API to file locking

Homepage: https://github.com/WoLpH/portalocker
Licenses: bsd-3-clause
Latest release: 2.6.0p3 (published 4 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-05-28T00:47:44.017Z (3 months ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%
Maintainers (1)
- mbuhl@openbsd.org

nixpkgs-23.05: python310Packages.portalocker

A library to provide an easy API to file locking

Homepage: https://github.com/WoLpH/portalocker
Documentation: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-23.05/pkgs/development/python-modules/portalocker/default.nix#L40
Licenses: Python-2.0
Latest release: 2.7.0 (published 7 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-04-18T07:04:52.180Z (4 months ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%
Maintainers (1)
- jonringer

nixpkgs-24.05: python312Packages.portalocker

A library to provide an easy API to file locking

Homepage: https://github.com/WoLpH/portalocker
Documentation: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-24.05/pkgs/development/python-modules/portalocker/default.nix#L51
Licenses: Python-2.0
Latest release: 2.8.2 (published 7 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-03-07T13:04:54.128Z (6 months ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
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- Average: 100%

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docs/requirements.txt pypi

portalocker_tests/requirements.txt pypi

pyproject.toml pypi

pywin32 >=226; platform_system == "Windows"