I don't believe you'll need to do anything when we ship concurrent requests for Python, as long as you're not using global mutable state anywhere. It's unlikely your threads will ever need to talk to each other.
Ikai Lan Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine Blog: http://googleappengine.blogspot.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/app_engine Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/appengine On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 4:57 AM, jay <kyburz....@gmail.com> wrote: > We are not going to have to go into that much detail for our apps > thought are we. > > Will we be able to take advantage of the multi-threading by simply > creating multiple request handlers. I imagined I would be changing a > few lines of code in my main function an that's about it. > > On Jun 29, 9:43 pm, Joshua Smith <joshuaesm...@charter.net> wrote: > > I would assume they are the same as the basic principles of thread safety > in any language: > > > > - Don't rely on global state, because multiple of your functions might be > running simultaneously > > > > This usually isn't very hard to achieve - just pass parameters instead of > modifying globals. The places where it can get tricky are where you really > *want* to use global state, such as for an in-memory cache. Usually the > language provides some primitives to ensure that only one thread at a time > is updating the cache. It appears that python gives you thread-safety for a > lot of cases: > > > > http://effbot.org/zone/thread-synchronization.htm > > > > On Jun 29, 2011, at 1:20 AM, Greg wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi - > > > > > Could anyone familiar with threads explain the basic principals of > > > python thread-safety? > > > > > Cheers! > > > Greg. > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Google App Engine" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com > . > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > > For more options, visit this group athttp:// > groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
