What does the term "thread safe" mean exactly. I never had to program with "threads" before
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Carl Banks <pavlovevide...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Aug 15, 12:49 pm, Alan G Isaac <alan.is...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Quotinghttp://docs.python.org/3.1/library/random.html#random.gauss: > > Gaussian distribution. mu is the mean, and sigma is the > > standard deviation. This is slightly faster than the > > normalvariate() function defined below. > > > > So since both are offered and gauss is faster, I assume it > > must have some offsetting disadvantage. What is it? > > random.gauss is not thread safe. > > I'm kind of surprised the html docs don't mention this; the docstring > does. > > > Carl Banks > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
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