On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 7:25 AM, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> On 08/08/2014 04:51 AM, cool-RR wrote:
>>
>>
>> If I want to acquire a `threading.Lock` using the context manager
>> protocol,
>> is it possible to specify the `blocking` and `timeout` arguments that
>> `acquire` would usually take?
>
>
> Not that I know of, but why would you want to? There's no built-in 'if'
> with a 'with' block -- how would your code know whether it ran or not?
@contextmanager
def locking(lock, blocking=False, timeout=-1):
try:
yield lock.acquire(blocking, timeout)
finally:
lock.release()
with locking(lock, timeout=5) as acquired:
if acquired:
print('yay!')
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