Suggested generator to add to threading module.

[Ype Kingma]

Andrae Muys wrote:

> Found myself needing serialised access to a shared generator from
> multiple threads.  Came up with the following
> 
> def serialise(gen):
>   lock = threading.Lock()
>   while 1:
>     lock.acquire()
>     try:
>       next = gen.next()
>     finally:
>       lock.release()
>     yield next

Is there any reason why the lock is not shared among threads?
>From the looks of this, it doesn't synchronize anything
between different threads. Am I missing something?

Kind regards,
Ype

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