On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 9:48 PM Gustavo Carneiro <gjcarne...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Note that you can wrap any of those methods with an asyncio.wait_for().
>
> try:
> try:
> await asyncio.wait_for(lock.acquire(), 1.0)
> except asyncio.TimeoutError: # times out after 1 second
> print("deadlock!")
> return
> do_things_with_lock()
> finally:
> lock.release()
>
>
> Although I must admit, it would be convenient to have a timeout parameter
> directly in the methods like acquire, especially because it would make
> timeouts usable directly in the async context manager:
>
> async with lock.acquire(timeout=1.0):
> do_things_with_lock()
>
How would this signal a timeout to your code? It looks lovely and
clean, but there still need to be two branches, so you're not really
going to avoid the try/except layer.
ChrisA
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