multithreading

[David LeBlanc]

Although, of course, you can create any access managed datatype as long as
the primatives are there...

David LeBlanc
Seattle, WA USA

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> In article <mailman.1021921968.9210.python-list at python.org>,
> David LeBlanc <whisper at oz.net> wrote:
> >
> >Lock, Semaphore and friends mentioned in the pythondoc (2.2.1) aren't
> >atomic? If not, then they're misnamed since atomicity is a required
> >property of such operations.
>
> What Peter meant is that Queue is the only single atomic operation for
> passing data between threads.  Lock & Semaphore are atomic, but they
> aren't by themselves sufficient for passing data.
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