On Thu, Mar 17, 2005, Jeremy Hylton wrote: > > Are the thread semantics for file objecst documented anywhere? I > don't see anything in the library manual, which is where I expected to > find it. It looks like read and write are atomic by virtue of fread > and fwrite being atomic.
Uncle Timmy will no doubt agree with me: the semantics don't matter. NEVER, NEVER access the same file object from multiple threads, unless you're using a lock. And even using a lock is stupid. -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "The joy of coding Python should be in seeing short, concise, readable classes that express a lot of action in a small amount of clear code -- not in reams of trivial code that bores the reader to death." --GvR _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
