locking - How to create a lock file in python?

Question

To prevent multiple apt instances from running at the same time, apt create a lock file. How to create a similar lock file in python for my program? is it just an empty file or is it using a special atomic operation?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65649808/how-to-create-a-lock-file-in-python

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