Tim Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The GIL is your friend here: > > import itertools > f = itertools.count().next
Thanks, I was hoping something like this would work but was not sure I could rely on it. > A similar thing can be done with xrange. But either way sucks if you > call it often enough to exceed the size of a Python short int > (platform C long). The obvious way with an explicit mutex doesn't > have that problem. Xrange, of course :). I don't need to exceed the size of a short int, so either of these should work fine. I wonder what measures the Pypy implementers will take (if any) to make sure these things keep working, but for now I won't worry about it. Out of interest, are the above guaranteed to work under Jython? What I'm doing right now is a short-term thing that will only have to run under CPython, but I like to do things the right way when I can. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
