Hi everybody, Assuming a snippet such as:
threadLocalData = threading.local() threadLocalData.myDictionary = self.myDictionary is it correct to say that threadLocalData.myDictionary is NOT a thread- local -copy- of self.myDictionary but it's actually pointing to the same object? If that's the case, and assuming I want to iterate over the dictionary without it changing under my nose while I'm in the loop, would it be better to encase the whole loop in lock-protected section or would it be better to make a copy of the dictionary first and then iterate over that one? Given that in this particular thread I do not want to modify the dictionary, conceptually a copy would work. But would making thread-local copy be just as slow as making the whole loop thread safe? Thanks for your help! Manu -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list