Using .hdf5 files only once they are finished writing

[pyhill00]

I solved the problem with the following code if statement:

        while True:
            event = self._q.get()
            max_retry_count = 350  # for test purposes now but want to set an upper bound on verifying a file is finished.
            retry_interval_seconds = .01  # every hundreth it will try the file to see if it finished writing
            retry_count = 0
            if event.event_type == "created" and event.src_path.lower().endswith(".hdf5"):
                while True:
                    try:
                        file = h5py.File(event.src_path, "r")
                        file.close()
                    except OSError:
                        if retry_count < max_retry_count:
                            retry_count += 1
                            print(f"h5 file <{event.src_path}> is locked, retrying {retry_count}/{max_retry_count}")
                            time.sleep(retry_interval_seconds)
                        else:
                            print(f"h5 file <{event.src_path}> reached max retry count, skipping")
                            break  # <--- looks useful here
                    except Exception as err:
                        print(f"Got unexpected Error <{type(err).__name__}> while opening <{event.src_path}> ")
                        traceback.print_exc()
                    else:
                        self.new_file.emit(event.src_path, os.path.basename(event.src_path))
                        break