Called reentrant / recursive lock (RLock) in Python

The Python module multiprocessing

has a class for reentrant / recursive locks:

from multiprocessing import RLock

l = RLock()
l.acquire()
l.acquire()
l.release()
l.release()

      

        
        
        
      

    

This works great for processes that have been decoupled from a common parent process and therefore may share the same object RLock

. However, for situations with independent processes (example: web server + cron job), a named lock is required . Unfortunately RLock()

does not accept a name argument to block. Is there a solution that allows you to do something like this?

l = RLock('mylock')
l.acquire()
l.release()