Re: Mutex not thread safe? PEP-3108.

2008-09-23 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Roy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm perusing PEP-3108 and came upon this interesting statement (under the > "Hardly used" section): > > mutex [...] Not thread-safe. > > How can a mutex, whose sole reason for existence is to mediate thread >

Re: Mutex not thread safe? PEP-3108.

2008-09-23 Thread skip
>>>>> "Roy" == Roy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Roy> I'm perusing PEP-3108 and came upon this interesting statement Roy> (under the "Hardly used" section): Roy> mutex [...] Not thread-safe. Roy> How can a mutex, who

Mutex not thread safe? PEP-3108.

2008-09-23 Thread Roy Smith
I'm perusing PEP-3108 and came upon this interesting statement (under the "Hardly used" section): mutex [...] Not thread-safe. How can a mutex, whose sole reason for existence is to mediate thread safety, not be thread safe? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

pep 3108

2008-03-20 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
Hi Brett, I've just looked through pep 3108 and since Raymond Hettinger suggested contacting you if we "have issues with it", here it goes: I don't think it would be a great idea to move tkinter from the core to a third party library because once that happens we can no longer