Change by Mohamad Kanj :
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assignee: docs@python
components: C API, Demos and Tools, Distutils, Documentation
files: tracing-locking-mechanisms.py
nosy: docs@python, dstufft, eric.araujo, mhmdkanj
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Intercepting thread lock objects
New submission from Mohamad Kanj :
The interception of Python and C functions is achieved through the `sys` module
- however, when using thread locks from `threading` module for instance under
context managers, the calls on the lock to `acquire()` and `release()` cannot
be witnessed. If
Mohamad Kanj added the comment:
Thanks Raymond for the input.
So with some experimentation, the __enter__() & __exit__() functions could be
traceable when other kinds of objects are used with the context manager (i.e
with statement using file IO or custom class objects). However, just
