Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Jeffrey Schwab wrote: > > >>>the problem isn't determining who owns it, the problem is determining >>>who's supposed to release it. that's not a very common problem in a >>>garbage-collected language... >> >>Yes it is. Memory is only one type of resource. > > > Python's garbage collector deals with objects, not memory.
But you don't want to spin and wait for the garbage collector to release the object that happens to be holding a thread lock... >>I am not a Python Guru > > > from the sound of it, you haven't written serious programs in any of the > languages you mention. You would be wrong there. :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
