On Sep 26, 2005, at 4:21 PM, Scott David Daniels wrote: > Unnecessarily holding a lock while acquiring another can be a nasty > source of deadlock or at least delay. Another source of problems is > holding a lock because an exception skipped past the release code.
I had thought of part of that after I sent my email. Didn't think of the exception issue or the specific deadlock scenario though. Thank you much for your help/advice. One issue remains in this function: my method's signature is lost when synchronized is applied (at least as somemeth=synchronized(somemeth); I'm currently in a 2.3 environment that doesn't have the decorator syntax, but my understanding is that makes no difference). I've been able to preserve the doc string by setting the __doc__ attribute of the inner function before returning it, but is there a way to make this inner function appear to bear the same argument list as the original method? I've been poking around in new and inspect, but it is not appearing like an easy task. Thanks, - Michael -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
