[Tutor] Locking a specific variable

[Tino Dai]

Hi there,

     I am wondering if you could lock a specific variable with thread
locking. Let me illustrate:

def ftpQueuePut(filename="")::
  if len(filename) > 0:
      try:
           fileQueue.put(filename,True,1)    #Variable that I would like to
lock
      except Queue.full:
           print "Queue is full"
   else:
           pass

def ftpQueueGet():
     try:
          filename=fileQueue.get(True,1)  #Variable that I would like to
lock
          return filename
     except Queue.Empty:
          pass


Presently, the only way that I can see to do this using Python is to combine
the two functions into one and lock and unlock the entire thing . That
doesn't seem efficient and/or elegant to me. Any pointers about this?

-Tino
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