[Python-ideas] Fwd: Concurrent safety?

[Paul Moore]

On 2 November 2011 18:10, Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org> wrote:
> You don't have to do anything. Iterators need to lock themselves to be
> safe in concurrent use, so this will work fine, with the temporary
> iterator doing whatever locking is needed.

So all iterators automatically lock themselves? Sounds like
potentially quite an overhead.

But you've obviously thought about it (even if I don't follow all the
details) so I'll leave it at that.
Paul.