Threading Question

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Fri May 4 10:48:43 EDT 2001


David Lees <Davidl at niospammyraqia.com> writes:

> The code I am actually working on is for handeling sockets.  I am pretty
> careful and am passing things in a threadsafe manner between them.  Is
> there any way I can release the lock without writing C code?

The lock is released around operations that might block, eg. file or
socket reads.  So your app can probably benefit from threading.  Pure
Python stuff won't.

Cheers,
M.

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