In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Re-binding a name is always an atomic operation. Modifying >many mutable objects is atomic.
You know this, but just to make clear: rebinding attributes of an object (which are also sometimes called names) is not necessarily an atomic operation. Moreover, only a plain rebinding operation is atomic; augmented assignment is frequently not atomic. -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "In many ways, it's a dull language, borrowing solid old concepts from many other languages & styles: boring syntax, unsurprising semantics, few automatic coercions, etc etc. But that's one of the things I like about it." --Tim Peters on Python, 16 Sep 1993 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
