    from SessionStore import SessionStore
    import os
    from glob import glob
    import threading

    debug = 0

    class SessionFileStore(SessionStore):
        """
        Stores the sessions on disk in the Sessions/ directory, one file
        per session.

        This is useful for various situations:
            1. Using the OneShot adapter
            2. Doing development (so that restarting the app server won't
               lose session information).
            3. Fault tolerance
            4. Clustering

        Note that the last two are not yet supported by WebKit (as of 0.4,
        8/2000).
        """

        ## Init ##

        def __init__(self, app):
            SessionStore.__init__(self, app)
            self._sessionDir = app.serverSidePath('Sessions')
            self._lock = threading.Lock()

        ## Access ##

        def __len__(self):
            if debug:
                print '>> len', len(self.keys())
            return len(self.keys())

        def __getitem__(self, key):
            if debug:
                print '>> get (%s)' % key
            filename = self.filenameForKey(key)
            self._lock.acquire()
            try:
                try:
                    file = open(filename)
                except IOError:
                    raise KeyError, key
                try:
                    item = self.decoder()(file)
                except:
                    # Corrupt data; pretend it doesn't exist
                    raise KeyError, key
                file.close()
            finally:
                self._lock.release()
            return item

        def __setitem__(self, key, item):
            # @@ 2001-11-12 ce: It's still possible that two threads are updating the same
            # session as the same time (due to the user having two windows open) in which
            # case one will clobber the results of the other! Probably need file locking
            # to solve this.
            # @@ 2001-11-16 gat: In order to avoid sessions clobering each other, you'd
            # have to lock the file for the entire time that the servlet is manipulating
            # the session, which would block any other servlets from using that session.
            # Doesn't seem like a great solution to me.

            if debug:
                print '>> setitem(%s,%s)' % (key, item)
            filename = self.filenameForKey(key)
            self._lock.acquire()
            try:
                file = open(filename, 'w')
                try:
                    self.encoder()(item, file)
                except: # error pickling the session.
                    print "Error saving session to disk:",key
                    file.close()
                    os.remove(filename) # remove file because it is corrupt.
                    self.application().handleException()
                else:
                    file.close()
            finally:
                self._lock.release()

        def __delitem__(self, key):
            filename = self.filenameForKey(key)
            if not os.path.exists(filename):
                raise KeyError, key
            sess = self[key]
            if not sess.isExpired():
                sess.expiring()
            os.remove(filename)

        def has_key(self, key):
            return os.path.exists(self.filenameForKey(key))

        def keys(self):
            start = len(self._sessionDir)+1
            end = -len('.ses')
            keys = glob(os.path.join(self._sessionDir, '*.ses'))
            keys = map(lambda key, start=start, end=end: key[start:end], keys)
            if debug:
                print '>> keys =', keys
            return keys

        def clear(self):
            for filename in glob(os.path.join(self._sessionDir,'*.ses')):
                os.remove(filename)

        ## Application support ##

        def storeSession(self, session):
            key = session.identifier()
            self[key] = session

        def storeAllSessions(self):
            pass

    ##  def cleanStaleSessions(self, task=None):
    ##      """
    ##      Called by the Application to tell this store to clean out all sessions that
    ##      have exceeded their lifetime.
    ##      """
    ##      we don't know the timeout without opening the session, so his can't work.
    ##      curTime = time.time()
    ##      for key in self.keys():
    ##          mtime = os.path.getmtime(self.filenameForKey(key))
    ##          if (curTime - mtime) >= sess.timeout()  or  sess.timeout()==0:
    ##              sess.expiring()
    ##              del self[key]

        ## Self utility ##

        def filenameForKey(self, key):
            return self._sessionDir + '/%s.ses' % key