Grant Edwards wrote: > That depends on the type of the global and how they're used. > Re-binding a name is always an atomic operation. Modifying > many mutable objects is atomic.
footnote: for more on this topic, see this FAQ entry: http://effbot.org/pyfaq/what-kinds-of-global-value-mutation-are-thread-safe.htm and this recent python-dev thread that discusses that entry: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-November/thread.html#69981 </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
