On 23/02/07, Diez B. Roggisch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > It is not desirable for the class variable to keep incrementing outside > > of invocations of '__main__', as is the case when it is loaded under > > mod_python under apache2 on linux. > > > > I'm still not clear on what you want to accomplish. In the end it boils down > to who is supposed to share that information in the variables, or in other > words: which scope has it. > > Is it per request? Then using some thread-local storage would be in order, > or "abusing" a possible request-object. > > Is it per user, over several requests? Then you need a session-mechanism. > > Is it per application, for several users, over several requests? Then your > approach is ok, but needs guarding against concurrrent access using > threading.Lock for example. However, I presume that is not the desired > usecase, from what I can extract from your posts I presume it's case two.
Many thanks for your reply. The use case is per request, and I would be grateful to learn more about thread-local storage. Kind regards Rory -- Rory Campbell-Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <www.campbell-lange.net> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
