global threading.Lock not locking correctly?

[Andrew Bennetts]

On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 09:42:36PM +0000, Afanasiy wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Feb 2003 18:17:45 GMT, Alex Martelli <aleax at aleax.it> wrote:
> 
> >Afanasiy wrote:
> >   ...
> >>>You're not CALLING the acquire and release methods, just
> >>>MENTIONING them.  use lock.acquire() and lock.release().
> >> 
> >> Hahaha, damnit! That's from too much Delphi...
> >> I wish I could toggle such things to be 'warnings'.
> >> 
> >> Or does PyChecker also check for this?
> >
> >Sure, it gives a "Statement appears to have no effect" warning.
> >
> >So why aren't you using it yet?  If you were, you wouldn't
> >have to ask...;-).
> 
> Because like many things, figuring out how to make it work in Windows
> takes a bit more work, if it is even possible at all. So I put that off
> while working on other things. I will surely try again later.

It works just fine on windows.  I don't recall any special problems with
just "setup.py install"ing it, except that it doesn't install to be on the
path (but it does put a handy batch file in C:\Python22\Scripts, or
something like that, iirc).

I'd invest the time right now into installing pychecker, because it is easy
and it will save you time in the long run.

-Andrew.