Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan <at> gmail.com> writes: >> It's also one of the major reasons for not sharing mutable containers >> between threads if you can avoid it (and serialising access to them if >> you can't) > > Not necessarily, for example it is common to rely on the fact that > list.append() > is atomic.
s/"mutable containers"/"mutable-containers-that-object-loudly-to-their-size-changing-during-iteration -like-sets-and-dicts" :) Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ 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
