Re: [Python-Dev] Retrieve an arbitrary element from asetwithoutremoving it

Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan <at> gmail.com> writes:

It's also one of the major reasons for not sharing mutable containers between threads if you can avoid it (and serialising access to them if you can't)

Not necessarily, for example it is common to rely on the fact that list.append() is atomic. Regards Antoine.