[Python-Dev] Pre-PEP: with syntax (was: New syntax threads -- summary wanted)

[Aahz]

On Mon, Feb 10, 2003, Bernhard Herzog wrote:
>
> In the particular case of locks, the threading.Lock object's release
> method must only be called when it's locked (same for the other lock
> objects AFAICT). Seems to me that this would require a flag at the
> python level and then you have the race condition.

That's not a problem for threading.RLock().  You can code that as

    lock = threading.RLock()
    try:
        lock.acquire()
    finally:
        lock.release()

Note that currently there's an AssertionError in threading when you do
that; perhaps that should be changed to a Warning?
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