Charles-François Natali added the comment: "synchronized" has the merit of reusing Java's denomination, which this decorator intends to mimic, see http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/concurrency/syncmeth.html
Basically, synchronize works with the object/class (implicit) reentrant lock. ---------- nosy: +neologix _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15634> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com