Is python memory shared between theads?
John Henry
john106henry at hotmail.com
Fri Dec 1 12:20:54 EST 2006
Wesley Henwood wrote:
> So I declare a variable named A in thread1, in script1.py. I assign
> the value of 2.5 to A. I then run script2.py in thread2. Script2.py
> assigns the value of 5.5 to a variable named A. Now, when thread1
> resums execution, I see that A = 5.5, rather than 2.5 as I expected.
>
> Is this normal behavior? Based on the little documentation I have been
> able to find on this topic, it is normal behavior. The only way to use
> same-named variables in scripts is to have them run in a different
> process, rather than different threads.
Yes and No.
local variables are local to each threads. Global variables are
global to the threads.
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