Please help with Threading

[Cameron Simpson]

On 20May2013 19:09, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
| On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 6:35 PM, Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au> wrote:
| >   _lock = Lock()
| >
| >   def lprint(*a, **kw):
| >     global _lock
| >     with _lock:
| >       print(*a, **kw)
| >
| > and use lprint() everywhere?
| 
| Fun little hack:
| 
| def print(*args,print=print,lock=Lock(),**kwargs):
|   with lock:
|     print(*args,**kwargs)
| 
| Question: Is this a cool use or a horrible abuse of the scoping rules?

I carefully avoided monkey patching print itself:-)

That's... mad! I can see what the end result is meant to be, but
it looks like a debugging nightmare. Certainly my scoping-fu is too
weak to see at a glance how it works.
-- 
Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au>

I will not do it as a hack       I will not do it for my friends
I will not do it on a Mac        I will not write for Uncle Sam
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