Raymond Hettinger wrote: >>it doesn't translate reasonably to Jython or IronPython, it's really tricky >>to >>implement, > > > FWIW, someone on the newsgroup suggested implementing this via a slight > modification to sys.checkinterval(). The idea was that a None argument would > translate to "stop-checking" and the active thread would do a few steps > atomically and then restore the original value. The new with-statement makes > that a piece of cake. > >
there's no sys.checkinterval in Jython. Implementing this would need the introduction of some kind of GIL implementation in Jython, the JVM has no primitive for global critical sections. A GIL is something users of Jython don't want. Even with that is way too easy to have non-Jython threads around that could manipulates Java objects you are seamlessy dealing with. That is of course true for CPython and C extension initiated threads too, but is probably harder to be oblivious of such things in CPython context. _______________________________________________ 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
