[Python-Dev] Coroutines and PEP 380

[Greg]

Glyph wrote:
> [Guido] mentions the point that coroutines that can implicitly switch out from 
> under you have the same non-deterministic property as threads: you don't 
> know where you're going to need a lock or lock-like construct to update 
> any variables, so you need to think about concurrency more deeply than 
> if you could explicitly always see a 'yield'.

I'm not convinced that being able to see 'yield's will help
all that much. In any system that makes substantial use of
generator-based coroutines, you're going to see 'yield from's
all over the place, from the lowest to the highest levels.
But that doesn't mean you need a correspondingly large
number of locks. You can't look at a 'yield' and conclude
that you need a lock there or tell what needs to be locked.

There's no substitute for deep thought where any kind of
theading is involved, IMO.

-- 
Greg