On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 21:57:59 -0500, Raymond Hettinger wrote: > Think of it as "non-cooperative" > multi-threading. While this is a somewhat rough approach, it is dramatically > simpler than the alternatives (i.e. wrapping locks around every access to a > resource or feeding all resource requests to a separate thread via a Queue).
Why is that actually more difficult to write? Consider res_lock = Lock() res = ... with locked(res_lock): do_something(res) It is only about supplying the correct lock at the right time. Or even this could work: res = ... # implements lock()/unlock() with locked(res): do_something(res) Directly exposing the GIL (or some related system) for such matters does not seem to be a good reason for a novice to let him stop all threads. Kind regards, Alexander _______________________________________________ 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