Bryan Olson <fakeaddr...@nowhere.org> writes: > > BTW, class instances are usually immutable and thus don't require a > > mutex in the system I described. > Then you are describing a language radically different from Python.
That one threw me for a minute too, but I think the idea is that the class instance itself is immutable, while its slots (specifically the attribute dictionary) point to mutable objects. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list