At 09:57 PM 3/13/2006 -0500, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
>FWIW, the new with-statement makes the above fragment even more readable:
>
> with atomic_transaction():
> # do a series of steps without interruption
+1 on the idea, -1000 on the name. It's neither atomic nor a
transaction. I believe that "critical section" is a more common term for
what you're proposing.
Probably the primitive could be placed in the thread or threading module,
so that it would be something like:
with threading.critical_section():
# ...
It might be nice to be able to escape out of the critical section using a
nested with: statement, as this would allow you to treat much of a program
as single-threaded, and then selectively allow task switching. But I'm not
sure what you'd call that API. :)
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