On Jan 23, 7:19 pm, Paul Rubin <http://phr...@nospam.invalid> wrote: > 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.
Correct, and, getting back to the point, an instance itself would not require a mutex. The dict would need it, of course. It's customary to gloss over this technicality for convenience's sake in most discussions, but it matters in this case. Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
