Jens Lechtenboerger added the comment:
> It only says that accesses are synchronized. The problem is that you were
> assuming that "+=" involves a single access -- but that is not how python
> works.
Yes, I understand that by now (actually since your first comment).
>
Jens Lechtenboerger added the comment:
> Loads and stores are both atomic. But "+=" is made up of two operations, a
> load followed by a store, and the lock is dropped between the two.
I see. Then this is a documentation bug. The examples in the documentation
use such
New submission from Jens Lechtenboerger:
Maybe I'm misreading the documentation of multiprocessing.Value and
multiprocessing.sharedctypes.Value.
I thought that access to the value field of Value instances was protected by
locks to avoid lost updates.
Specifically, for multiprocessing.
New submission from Jens Lechtenboerger:
The documentation for the stat module is inconsistent
(Doc/library/stat.rst, at least for Python 2.7.2 and 3.3.0):
It talks about a function stat.S_IFMT() and a bit mask stat.S_IFMT.
Only the former does exist.
Besides, it states: "For complete de
