suggestion: swap function in Python

[Toby Dickenson]

Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> wrote:

> If you need it to be atomic (the
>only possible reason I can see for implementing this idea), you'd have to
>define a new opcode for the Python VM.

I dont think it is possible to implement an atomic swap in Jython.

If you are happy with a CPython-only solution, use bytecodehacks.

Toby Dickenson
tdickenson at geminidataloggers.com