[Python-Dev] Adding library modules to the core

[Gordon McMillan]

Eric Raymond wrote:
> Vladimir Marangozov <Vladimir.Marangozov@inrialpes.fr>:

> > There's a Semaphore class in Lib/threading.py. Are there any
> > problems with it? I haven't used it, but threading.py has
> > thread mutexes and semaphores on top of them, so as long as you
> > don't need IPC, they should be fine. Or am I missing something?
> 
> If I'm not mistaken, that's semaphores across a thread bundle
> within a single process. It's semaphores visible across processes
> that I don't think we currently have a facility for. 

There's the interprocess semaphore / mutex stuff in 
win32event... oh, never mind...

- Gordon