Message 110324 - Python tracker

Message110324

Author	pitrou
Recipients	belopolsky, brett.cannon, christian.heimes, grahamd, gvanrossum, ncoghlan, pitrou
Date	2010-07-14.20:03:38
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> That's why I said we should supply a context decorator (or function) which > will handle the lock appropriately, taking the name of the module to import > as an argument so the locking is fine-grained. Ok, so what are you saying is that we can break compatibility for non thread-safe import loaders which currently work fine? (I have nothing against it, just trying to be sure we agree on the implications)

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> That's why I said we should supply a context decorator (or function) which
> will handle the lock appropriately, taking the name of the module to import
> as an argument so the locking is fine-grained.

Ok, so what are you saying is that we can break compatibility for non
thread-safe import loaders which currently work fine?
(I have nothing against it, just trying to be sure we agree on the
implications)

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Date	User	Action	Args
2010-07-14 20:03:40	pitrou	set	recipients: + pitrou, gvanrossum, brett.cannon, ncoghlan, belopolsky, christian.heimes, grahamd
2010-07-14 20:03:38	pitrou	link	issue9260 messages
2010-07-14 20:03:38	pitrou	create