[Python-Dev] Add an optional timeout to lock operations

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Tue Nov 17 12:46:18 CET 2009


Hello,

I've submitted a patch (*) to add an optional timeout to locking operations
(Lock.acquire() etc.). Since it's a pretty basic functionality, I would like to
know if there was any good reason for not doing it.

(*) http://bugs.python.org/issue7316

Thank you

Antoine.




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