Mutex not thread safe? PEP-3108.

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>>>>> "Roy" == Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> writes:

    Roy> I'm perusing PEP-3108 and came upon this interesting statement
    Roy> (under the "Hardly used" section):

    Roy> mutex [...] Not thread-safe.

    Roy> How can a mutex, whose sole reason for existence is to mediate thread 
    Roy> safety, not be thread safe?

Because it is a mutex in name only.  Take a look at the code.  There is
nothing in there which actually locks the internal data structure against
simultaneous manipulation (a collections.deque instance in this case) from
multiple threads.

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