On 8/1/2020 1:25 PM, Marco Sulla wrote:
You don't need locks with immutable objects. Since they're immutable, any operation that usually will mutate the object, generate another immutable instead. The most common example is str: the sum of two strings in Python (and in many other languages) produces a new string.
While they're immutable at the Python level, strings (and all other objects) are mutated at the C level, due to reference count updates. You need to consider this if you're sharing objects without locking or other synchronization.
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