[Async-sig] "read-write" synchronization

Chris Jerdonek chris.jerdonek at gmail.com
Sun Jun 25 17:24:50 EDT 2017


Thank you. I had seen that, but it seems heavier weight than needed.
And it also requires locking on reading.

--Chris

On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 2:16 PM, Andrew Svetlov
<andrew.svetlov at gmail.com> wrote:
> There is https://github.com/aio-libs/aiorwlock
>
> On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 12:13 AM Chris Jerdonek <chris.jerdonek at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> I'm relatively new to async programming in Python and am thinking
>> through possibilities for doing "read-write" synchronization.
>>
>> I'm using asyncio, and the synchronization primitives that asyncio
>> exposes are relatively simple [1]. Have options for async read-write
>> synchronization already been discussed in any detail?
>>
>> I'm interested in designs where "readers" don't need to acquire a lock
>> -- only writers. It seems like one way to deal with the main race
>> condition I see that comes up would be to use loop.time(). Does that
>> ring a bell, or might there be a much simpler way?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> --Chris
>>
>>
>> [1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-sync.html
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> --
> Thanks,
> Andrew Svetlov


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