Overriding "__setattr__" of a module - possible?

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:09:38 -0300, John Nagle <nagle at animats.com>
escribió:

>     I'm trying out a proof of concept implementation for a new
> approach to safe threading.  It's somewhat similar in concept
> to Alan Olsen's scheme.  The basic difference is that once
> the program goes multi-thread, code objects and some other
> bindings are locked down and become unchangeable.  Olsen
> was climbing the walls trying to get the locking right for
> the awful cases like redefining a function while another thread
> is inside it.  I'm trying to lock out some of those cases.
> If you do that, removing the GIL requires less pain than
> Olsen experienced.
>
>     The key idea is that the use cases for most of Python's
> code dynamism are during setup and initialization.  You usually
> don't change code once the program has gone into its heavy
> parallel processing phase.  This suggests a practical compromise.

Seems interesting...!

-- 
Gabriel Genellina