Guido van Rossum wrote: > Why are you so keen on using a dictionary to share data between > threads that may both modify it? IMO this is asking for trouble -- > the advice about sharing data between threads is always to use the > Queue module.
I use them often for a shared caches. But yeah, it's harder than I thought at first -- I think the actual cases I'm using work, since they use simple keys (ints, strings), but yeah, thread guarantees are too difficult to handle in general. Damn threads. -- Ian Bicking / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://blog.ianbicking.org _______________________________________________ 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
