Are min() and max() thread-safe?

[ryles]

On Sep 17, 7:02 am, Carl Banks <pavlovevide... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sep 16, 9:33 pm, Steven D'Aprano
>
> <ste... at REMOVE.THIS.cybersource.com.au> wrote:
> > def minmax(seq):
> >     result = [None, None]
> >     t1 = MMThread(seq, min, result, 0)
> >     t2 = MMThread(seq, max, result, 1)
> >     t1.start()
> >     t2.start()
> >     # Block until all threads are done.
> >     while any([t1.isAlive(), t2.isAlive()]):
> >         time.sleep(0)
>
> Why not use "t1.join(); t2.join()" here?  Is there any benefit to do
> it this way instead?
>
> Carl Banks

The benefit is that SIGINT (Control-C) will be handled. Not sure why
sleep(0) is used, though, rather than something less busy like sleep
(0.5).