On Sun, Jul 8, 2018 at 1:58 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Sun, 08 Jul 2018 12:23:41 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > >>> Some people, when confronted with a problem, say, "I know, I'll use >>> threads". Nothhtwo probw ey ave lems. >> >> Right. Now they have to deal with interleaving, but that's all. And >> honestly, MOST CODE wouldn't notice interleaving; it's only when you >> change (either by rebinding or by mutating) something that can be seen >> by multiple threads. Which basically means "mutable globals are a risk, >> pretty much everything else is safe". > > Its not just globals though. Any mutable object shared between two > threads is potentially a risk. Globals are just the most obvious example. >
Right; by "basically" I mean "yes there are others but this is what matters". The technically-accurate part is in the previous sentence: "can be seen by multiple threads". ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
