On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 12:58 PM Thomas Grainger <tagr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is D1.update(D2) still atomic with this implementation? > https://docs.python.org/3.11/faq/library.html#what-kinds-of-global-value-mutation-are-thread-safe > No. For example, another thread reading from the dict concurrently may observe a partial update. As Ronald Oussoren points out, dict.update isn't atomic in the general case. CPython even includes some checks for concurrent modifications: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/2f92e2a590f0e5d2d3093549f5af9a4a1889eb5a/Objects/dictobject.c#L2582-L2586
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