thread lock object.

[Irmen de Jong]

ajikoe at gmail.com wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have multi thread program running together and each will increment
> int i.
> 
> How can we make only one thread at a time be able to access and
> increment i ?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Sincerely Yours,
> pujo
> 

Use a synchronization primitive such as a lock
(threading.Lock, threading.RLock)

But for simply incrementing a number (i+=1) this is not needed
because that operation cannot be interrupted by another thread,
as far as I know.

--Irmen