On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 22:54 +0100, mk wrote: <snip> > No need to use synchro primitives like locks? > > I know that it may work, but that strikes me as somehow wrong... I'm > used to using things like Lock().acquire() and Lock().release() when > accessing shared data structures, whatever they are. <snip>
This is one of those places where the GIL is a good thing, and makes your life simpler. You could consider it that the interpreter does the locking for you for such primitive operations, if you like. -- John Krukoff <jkruk...@ltgc.com> Land Title Guarantee Company -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
