multithreading

[Aahz]

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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