[Python-Dev] Retrieve an arbitrary element from asetwithoutremoving it

[Nick Coghlan]

Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan <at> gmail.com> writes:
>> It's also one of the major reasons for not sharing mutable containers
>> between threads if you can avoid it (and serialising access to them if
>> you can't)
> 
> Not necessarily, for example it is common to rely on the fact that list.append()
> is atomic.

s/"mutable
containers"/"mutable-containers-that-object-loudly-to-their-size-changing-during-iteration
-like-sets-and-dicts" :)

Cheers,
Nick.

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