[Python-Dev] usefulness of Python version of threading.RLock

Robert Collins robertc at robertcollins.net
Fri Jan 6 03:43:32 CET 2012


On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
>> >From what I understand, the biggest motivation for pure Python
>> versions is cooperation with the other Python implementations.  See
>> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0399/
>
> Apologies, I didn't remember it was written down in PEP.
> A bit more than a school of thought, then :-)

It needs to be correct to aid other implementation though, doesn't it?

Copying/reusing something buggy won't help...

-Rob


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