[Python-Dev] pre-PEP: The Safe Buffer Interface

[Greg Ewing]

Scott Gilbert <xscottg@yahoo.com>:

> The need for this derives from wanting to do more than one thing at a time
> in Python (multiple processors with multiple threas, asynchronous I/O, DMA
> transers, ???).

In any situation like that, you should be using some form
of locking on the object concerned. The Python buffer
interface is not the right place to deal with these
issues.

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