Jens Lechtenboerger added the comment: > Loads and stores are both atomic. But "+=" is made up of two operations, a > load followed by a store, and the lock is dropped between the two.
I see. Then this is a documentation bug. The examples in the documentation use such non-thread-safe assignments (combined with the statement "These shared objects will be process and thread safe."). ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16998> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
