http://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4191156/2014-11-20T11:59:46-08:00ActiveState Code Recipes2014-11-20T11:59:46-08:00Matteo Bertinihttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4191156/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/578966-creating-a-single-instance-application/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 578966 by <a href="/recipes/users/4191156/">Matteo Bertini</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/threads/">threads</a>). </p> <p>Sometimes it is necessary to ensure that only one instance of application is running. This quite simple solution uses mutex to achieve this, and will run only on Windows platform.</p>