Bullock
A distributed lock using Redis. Inspired by Sherlock.
Installation
$ pip install bullockUsage
from bullock import Bullock
lock = Bullock(host="redis-hostname", key="my-first-lock", ttl=3600)
lock.acquire(blocking=True)
# do critical work here
lock.release()You can also use the with statement:
from bullock import Bullock
with Bullock(host="redis-hostname", key="my-first-lock", ttl=3600):
# do critical work hereAlso supports using redis cluster:
from bullock import Bullock
lock = Bullock(host="redis-hostname", key="my-first-lock", ttl=3600, redis_cluster=True)
lock.acquire(blocking=True)
# do critical work here
lock.release()For more examples, see tests.