Roy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm perusing PEP-3108 and came upon this interesting statement (under the > "Hardly used" section): > > mutex [...] Not thread-safe. > > How can a mutex, whose sole reason for existence is to mediate thread > safety, not be thread safe?
"mutex" is a module designed for use with "sched", not for multithreading: """Mutual exclusion -- for use with module sched [...] Of course, no multi-threading is implied -- hence the funny interface for lock, where a function is called once the lock is aquired. """ What is called a mutex in multithreading is known in Python as threading.Lock, and does work with threads. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
