ownership problem?

[Jeffrey Schwab]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> Jeffrey Schwab wrote:
> 
> 
>>>the problem isn't determining who owns it, the problem is determining
>>>who's supposed to release it.  that's not a very common problem in a
>>>garbage-collected language...
>>
>>Yes it is.  Memory is only one type of resource.
> 
> 
> Python's garbage collector deals with objects, not memory.

But you don't want to spin and wait for the garbage collector to release 
the object that happens to be holding a thread lock...

>>I am not a Python Guru
> 
> 
> from the sound of it, you haven't written serious programs in any of the
> languages you mention.

You would be wrong there. :)