On May 19, 2014, at 2:29 AM, Laurens Van Houtven <_...@lvh.io> wrote:

> On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 12:19 AM, Glyph <gl...@twistedmatrix.com> wrote:
> I think this is the sort of thing that should move into Twisted itself, 
> eventually.  Thoughts?
> 
> I agree! There's a few things I'd like to work out with the freedom to break 
> things of a v0.x.x semver version before that happens though.

Oh, definitely.  Hence: eventually.

> Notably, this thing assumes that all attribute accesses are thread-safe and 
> synchronous. That's often true, but hey, this is Python, so you get to do 
> whatever you want when you access an attribute (and @property even makes it 
> easy to do so). Also because right now I'm suggesting a pool with a singled 
> thread for synchronized access to an object that isn't thread safe; 
> especially if you *know* the object isn't thread safe you probably want 
> something to take care of attribute access too :-)

Just write a decorator that programmatically verifies that everything about the 
attribute it's decorating is thread-safe.  Simple!  ;-)

-g
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