installed arelle with pip install arelle-release. Mandatory dependencies seem to be present.

After importing and initialising Cntlr, I attempted to load the target document but I am receiving a filelock timeout.

I am a beginner with Arelle and have struggled to find step-by-step walkthroughs of how to get it up and running. Would appreciate if anyone might be able to point out solutions / obvious errors in what I attempted.

I’d also appreciate if someone could point me toward a detailed breakdown of how to make use of this package.

I tried the following:

from arelle import Cntlr, ModelManager

my_cont = Cntlr.Cntlr()
my_model_manager = my_cont.modelManager
my_model_xbrl = my_model_manager.load('the_doc.html')

But I am receiving the following error:

File "C:Usersmeanaconda3libsite-packagesfilelock.py", line 278, in acquire
    raise Timeout(self._lock_file)
filelock.Timeout: The file lock 'C:UsersmeAppDatalocalArellecachehttpsxbrl.some_char.xsd.lock' could not be acquired.
[Finished in 31.0s]

where ‘xbrl.some_char.xsd.lock’ is a placeholder