Re: Question about threading.Lock().aquire(waitflag)
[ameyer2@xxxxxxxxx]
> is treated as a boolean or as a number.
>
> Running on Windows, I get two different behaviors from
> the following calls to acquire:
>
> aLock = threading.Lock()
> ...
>
> # Thread 0
> # This one often succeeds
> aLock.acquire(1)
> ...
>
> # Thread 1
> # When this one would fail in a different thread
> aLock.acquire(2)
>
> but the behaviors aren't what I would expect if waitflag
> were a timeout value.
It's a Windows bug, fixed a while ago but not yet in a released
Python; here's the bug report:
http://www.python.org/sf/1234979
2 _should_ have exactly the same effect as 1, but didn't on Windows.
> If the argument to acquire is a true/false flag, the
> behaviors for values of 1 and 2 ought to be the same.
Right, that's the intent.
> ...
.
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