global threading.Lock not locking correctly?

[Anton Muhin]

Afanasiy wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Feb 2003 18:02:40 +0300, Anton Muhin <antonmuhin at sendmail.ru>
> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Afanasiy wrote:
>>
>>># My logic tells me this should never print 'OOPS', yet it does.
>>># Can someone tell me why? (P.S. this is simplified example code)
>>>
>>>import threading, time
>>>
>>
>>[snipped]
>>
>>Several runs don't lead to problems. Are you sure that it doesn't work 
>>as supposed?
>>
>>Anton.
> 
> 
> What OS? My runs definitely print OOPS.
Alex Martelli is as usually right---you forgot ().
Funny thing, under SciTE it runs correclty.

Anton.