You could copy a file using python ... open it read/write and if that succeeds copy the contents somewhere.
If opening it with write fails, you know someone else has it open for write.
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From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Greg Wilburn <gwilburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 9, 2026 13:14
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: SFTP client
What we ran into is they just happened to be uploading files (for us) at the same instant that we were retrieving them.
Jack Woehr
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