atomic section in code

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Fri Sep 5 04:59:52 EDT 2008


Ahmad Humayun wrote:

> I need to create an atomic section in Python code i.e. there is no
> context switch to any other thread during the running of that piece of
> code. Would would do the trick?

use a lock, and make sure that anyone that needs access to the shared 
state you're manipulating in that section uses the same lock.

     lock = threading.Lock() # or RLock() etc [1]

     with lock:
         section

this only works if everyone honors the lock, of course; there's no way 
in Python to lock out non-cooperating external threads.

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1) see http://effbot.org/zone/thread-synchronization.htm




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