[Python-Dev] Retrieve an arbitrary element from a setwithoutremoving it

[Yuvgoog Greenle]

On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 1:17 AM, James Y Knight <foom at fuhm.net> wrote:

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Sorry, I just had to point out that pop/add has a side effect that would be
apparent on a set that multiple threads access - it loses an item and then
gets it back. Sounds like a sleeper race condition that's going to be rare
but extremely hard to find if it does occur. Crooked as a gil.

--yuv
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