Read-write lock for Python

[Geoff Bache]

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 12:38 AM, Ryan Kelly <ryan at rfk.id.au> wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 07:02 -0700, Geoff Bache wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I currently find myself needing a Python read-write lock. I note that
>> there is none in the standard library, but googling "python read-write
>> lock" quickly produced 6 different competing examples, including two
>> languishing patch proposals for the standard library.
>>
>> I can always pick a random one and hope for the best, but I was hoping
>> someone here might have a tip for one that has been used and debugged
>> and is likely to work.
>
> I wrote and have used the "SHLock" class in threading2 which should do
> what you need.  Don't know about "likely to work" but if it doesn't, I'd
> like to hear about it so I can fix it :-)

That's good enough for me :) Thanks, I'll give it a try.

/Geoff