[Python-Dev] threading.Semaphore()'s counter can become negative for non-ints

[Guido van Rossum]

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Matt Joiner <anacrolix at gmail.com> wrote:
> It's also potentially lossy if you incremented and decremented until integer
> precision is lost. My vote is for an int type check. No casting.

+1. Anything else is insane scope creep for something called "Semaphore".

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