Hi. My name is Ian Kjos. I am a professional software developer by trade, but much of the challenge has gone out of it. Some time ago, I decided to learn the Python language. Now I believe I have something to contribute.

Barry@zope.com and I have had a short discussion, and it seems a good time to raise the following issue on python-dev:

I've been working on multithreading in python, and I have some proposals that I would like to talk over with some knowledgable people. I aim to donate some code to the standard library, but only if it meets the community standards and is consistent with the goals of Python.

Please read this:

http://www.saltillotilestore.com/morethreading.py

It contains smoke-tested code, documentation, design notes, and some food for thought. I will not claim perfect style at the moment, but I volunteer to clean up those issues as needed.

For the impatient: Lock pools Read/Write Locks Easy Thread-Local storage support.

I'm also thinking about building a metaclass for monitors (in the data-processing sense of the word). An alternative might be a synchronized method builder a'la classmethod and staticmethod.

Lastly, before this goes standard I'll make it safe for "from X import *".

I wanted to get some feedback and direction from other developers before continuing too far. For reference, I have already checked python resources, and this effort seems orthogonal to other projects I could find.

/me ponders making the profiler work with threads...