removeall() in list

[Rhamphoryncus]

On Jan 12, 1:37 am, castiro... at gmail.com wrote:
> On Jan 11, 8:04 pm, Paul Rubin <http://phr...@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote:
>
>
>
> > castiro... at gmail.com writes:
> > > Could you:
>
> > > lockerA= Locker( listA, listB )
> > > lockerA.op( listB.reverse )
> > > lockerA.op( listA.pop )
>
> > > Where lockerA ops acquire the locks on all its threads?
>
> > I don't understand that question.  The main thing to understand is
> > that multi-threaded programming is complicated (especially if you're
> > after high performance), and very difficult to get right without
> > knowing exactly what you're doing.  The generally preferred approach
> > in Python is to keep things simple at some performance cost.
>
> > Your Locker approach above looks sort of reasonable if you can be
> > absolutely sure that nothing else can mess with listA or listB
> > concurrently with those locker operations.  Normally you would put
> > listA and listB into a single object along with a lock, then do
> > operations on that object.
>
> > You might check the Python Cookbook for some specific recipes and
> > sample code for this stuff.  If you've used Java, Python's general
> > threading mechanisms are similar, but they are in the library rather
> > than built into the language (i.e. there is no "synchronized"
> > keyword, you have to do that locking explicitly).
>
> > What is the actual application, if you don't mind saying?  Are you
> > sure that you really need concurrency?
>
> I'm writing an NxN observer pattern, mostly for my own personal
> exploration.  Two threads -might- be calling 'Disconnect' at the same
> time, and I can't even guarantee that the function runs properly.
>
>         for emelem in [ e for e in emlist if e.func is func ]:
>                 try:
>                         emlist.remove( emelem )
>                 except ValueError:
>                         pass

Is there a reason you're using a list, rather than a dict?  Note that
each call to list.remove() is O(n), whereas deleting a key from a dict
is O(1).