[Python-Dev] Threading and synchronization primitives

[Guido van Rossum]

On 10/13/05, skip at pobox.com <skip at pobox.com> wrote:
>
>     Greg> All right then, how about putting it in a module called
>     Greg> threadutils or something like that, which is clearly related to
>     Greg> threading, but is open for the addition of future thread-related
>     Greg> features that might arise.
>
> Then Lock, RLock, Semaphore, etc belong there instead of in threading don't
> they?

No. Locks and semaphores are the lowest-level threading primitives.
They go in the basic module.

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