Locking a method in Python?

Question

Here is my problem: I\'m using APScheduler library to add scheduled jobs in my application. I have multiple jobs executing same code at the same time, but with different par

Answer 1

You can use a basic python locking mechanism:

from threading import Lock
lock = Lock()
...

def foo():
    lock.acquire()
    try:
        # only one thread can execute code there
    finally:
        lock.release() #release lock

Or with context managment:

def foo():
    with lock:
        # only one thread can execute code there

For more details see Python 3 Lock Objects and Thread Synchronization Mechanisms in Python.