Urllib thread safe?

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 10:31:52AM +0200, Martin v. LЖwis wrote:
> >    I am afraid you would have problems mixing calls to the global
> > _urlopener from different threads.
> 
> Can you be more specific as to how precisely such problems could
> arise?

   I said "I am afraid" - that is, I am not sure if this could lead to
probles. But I learned hard that global variables are enemies of
multithreaded programs. And in this particular case the global _urlopener
is an instance of class with long and complex methods. I would be very
worried to share the instance between threads.

Oleg.
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