... [Jim Jewett] >> qsize, empty, and full could be done with a lockself decorator. >> Effectively, they *are* lockself decorators for the _xxx functions >> that subclasses are told to override.
[Guido] > Actually you're pointing out a bug in the Queue module: these *should* > be using a try/finally clause to ensure the mutex is released even if > the inner call raises an exception. Yup! OTOH, if those dead-simple methods raised an exception, the Queue has probably gone wholly insane anyway. > I hadn't noticed these before because I was scanning only for "finally" > > If a locking primitive had been available, I'm sure it would have been > used here. That too. _______________________________________________ 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
