>>>>> "Roy" == Roy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Roy> I'm perusing PEP-3108 and came upon this interesting statement
Roy> (under the "Hardly used" section):
Roy> mutex [...] Not thread-safe.
Roy> How can a mutex, whose sole reason for existence is to mediate thread
Roy> safety, not be thread safe?
Because it is a mutex in name only. Take a look at the code. There is
nothing in there which actually locks the internal data structure against
simultaneous manipulation (a collections.deque instance in this case) from
multiple threads.
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