Jim Jewett wrote: > > why does it need the lock the whole time? > Is someone getting known stale data (when you could tell them to > wait) always OK, but overwriting someone else's change never is?
In a threaded environment, it shouldn't really be a problem as long as the view of the data is consistent. It's no different from what would have happened if the reading thread had got there just a moment sooner, before the writer got hold of it. If that's a problem, there should have been some higher-level synchronisation going on before getting to that point. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
