Bengt Richter wrote:
> "Atomic" means trademarked by a company that used to use that name in the 50's
> to describe and identify a line toys it put in its breakfast cereal boxes.
> The rights are now owned by an IP scavenging company which is trying to sell
> them for stock in another IP scavenger
On Sun, 08 Jan 2006 10:24:43 -0500, Peter Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> yes, I read it, and I even know about threading's existence. I just
>> thought that if something claims to be atomic, it better should be.
>
>I think the term "atomic" is meaningful only when t
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> yes, I read it, and I even know about threading's existence. I just
> thought that if something claims to be atomic, it better should be.
I think the term "atomic" is meaningful only when the context is known.
For example, "atomic" operations in the Python interpreter
Jean-Paul Calderone wrote:
> Did you read the module docstring?
>
>Of course, no multi-threading is implied -- hence the funny interface
>for lock, where a function is called once the lock is aquired.
>
> If you are looking for a mutex suitable for multithreaded use, see the
> threading
yes, I read it, and I even know about threading's existence. I just
thought that if something claims to be atomic, it better should be.
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On 6 Jan 2006 14:44:39 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hi, I was looking at the code in the standard lib's mutex.py, which is
>used for queuing function calls. Here is how it lets you acquire a
>lock:
Did you read the module docstring?
Of course, no multi-threading is implied -- hence the fu
