>>>>> Christopher Subich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (CS) wrote:
>CS> Hrm... this would suggest the possibility of designing a metaclass, >CS> perhaps, that would ensure synchronous access to an object. Perhaps "wrap" >CS> the class in another, that gets and releases a mutex on any external >CS> get/set access (except, possibly, for a specified list of "asynchronous" >CS> data members and methods). Sometimes that's not enough, because you may have to synchronise access to a couple of objects, or to multiple operations on some object(s). The system can't know the required granularity of locking, only the application programmer knows that. -- Piet van Oostrum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL: http://www.cs.uu.nl/~piet [PGP 8DAE142BE17999C4] Private email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
