[Tutor] Threading in Python

[dman]

On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 01:10:32PM +0530, Karthik Gurumurthy wrote:
| what is the basic difference in threading model of say java and python?
| i ask this because i find all the method names in the library to be very
| similar.

synchronized ( <name> ) 
{
    <code block>
}


The key differences are :
    o   Python doesn't have a 'synchronized' keyword
    o   each object in python does not have an implicit "lock" object
            associated with it

Thus the locking is all done "manually" via a method call.  The above
Java looks like this in python :

<name> = threading.Lock()
<name>.acquire()
<code block>
<name>.release()


Of course, "<name>" is a placeholder for an identifier and
"<code block>" is a placeholder for a block (or snippet) of code.

-D

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