[Python-Dev] Adding library modules to the core
Gordon McMillan
gmcm@hypernet.com
Tue, 8 Aug 2000 13:51:51 -0400
Eric Raymond wrote:
> Vladimir Marangozov <Vladimir.Marangozov@inrialpes.fr>:
> > There's a Semaphore class in Lib/threading.py. Are there any
> > problems with it? I haven't used it, but threading.py has
> > thread mutexes and semaphores on top of them, so as long as you
> > don't need IPC, they should be fine. Or am I missing something?
>
> If I'm not mistaken, that's semaphores across a thread bundle
> within a single process. It's semaphores visible across processes
> that I don't think we currently have a facility for.
There's the interprocess semaphore / mutex stuff in
win32event... oh, never mind...
- Gordon