[Python-ideas] Keyword only argument on function call
Steven D'Aprano
steve at pearwood.info
Wed Sep 12 11:16:37 EDT 2018
On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 06:59:44AM -0700, Ethan Furman wrote:
> On 09/12/2018 05:17 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
[...]
> >We could solve this race condition with locking, or by making the pair
> >of steps:
[...]
> >I'm not an expert on threaded code, so it is possible I've missed some
> >non-obvious fix for this, but I expect not. In general, solving race
> >conditions without deadlocks is a hard problem.
>
> I believe the solution is `threading.local()`, and Python would
> automatically use it in these situations.
I'm finding it hard to understand the documentation for
threading.local():
https://docs.python.org/3/library/threading.html#threading.local
as there isn't any *wink* although it does refer to the docstring of a
private implementation module. But I can't get it to work. Perhaps I'm
doing something wrong:
import time
from threading import Thread, local
def func():
pass
def attach(value):
func.__params__ = local()
func.__params__.value = value
def worker(i):
print("called from thread %s" % i)
attach(i)
assert func.__params__.value == i
time.sleep(3)
value = func.__params__.value
if value != i:
print("mismatch", i, value)
for i in range(5):
t = Thread(target=worker, args=(i,))
t.start()
print()
When I run that, each of the threads print their "called from ..."
message, the assertions all pass, then a couple of seconds later they
consistently all raise exceptions:
Exception in thread Thread-1:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/threading.py", line 914, in
_bootstrap_inner
self.run()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/threading.py", line 862, in run
self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs)
File "<stdin>", line 5, in worker
AttributeError: '_thread._local' object has no attribute 'value'
In any case, if Steve Barnes didn't actually intend for the __params__
to be attached to the function object as an externally visible
attribute, the whole point is moot.
--
Steve
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