[issue29449] clear() should return prior state in threading.Event

[Tim Peters]

Tim Peters added the comment:

I can't judge a use case for a thread gimmick in the absence of wholly specified examples.  There are too many possible subtleties.  Indeed, if I'd do anything with Event.clear() it would be to remove it - I've seen too much code that suffers subtle race bugs when trying to reset an event.  The one thing it's clearly good for is announcing a one-time global state change, for which it's sufficient, efficient, clear, and hard to get wrong.

Can you use a Barrier instead?  The Barrier design allows reuse with no special care, Barrier.wait() already returns a little integer unique to each thread, and the Barrier constructor even allows a function to be passed in to be executed by (exactly) one of the threads when the Barrier is complete.

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