On Thu, 19 May 2011 13:22:32 -0700, Jerry Krinock said:

>"Thread-Unsafe Classes.  The following classes and functions are
>generally not thread-safe. In most cases, you can use these classes from
>any thread as long as you use them from only one thread at a time."
>
>I'm confused by the second sentence.

Indeed.  Surely they don't mean that.

>Would it be correct to restate it
>like this…
>
>"In most cases, although you can allocate instances of these classes on
>any thread, each instance must receive messages only from the thread
>which allocated it."

I believe so.  See also:
<http://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2009-01-09.html>

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