Gary Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As far as I can tell, if the Python bytecodes that cause dictionary > modifications are atomic, then there should be no problem. But I don't > know that they are because I haven't looked at the bytecodes.
Depending on behavior like that is asking for trouble. If it doesn't kill your app's performance, put some kind of locks around the dictionary and/or direct all access to the directory through a single thread. The favorite Python idiom for that seems to be the Queue module; you'd set up a work queue and a result queue to communicate with the thread controlling the dictionary. If your app absolutely can't stand that, look to a more fundamental solution, maybe something like POSH (poshmodule.sf.net). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
