[Python-Dev] Re: Thread safety of deques

[Aahz]

On Mon, Jul 19, 2004, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
>
> However, anything that calls back into Python code isn't necessarily 
> atomic, and in general, almost anything can call back into Python code.

Yup.

> For example, the seemingly harmless dictionary item assignment can call 
> back into Python for a custom type's __hash__ and __eq__ methods, so could 
> it be that a thread switch could actually occur during this statement:
> 
>     foo[bar] = baz
> 
> if 'bar' has such custom methods?  Maybe I'm wrong, and the GIL is still 
> held in such a case, but I'm not sure *how*.

No, it isn't.
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