[Python-Dev] Retrieve an arbitrary element from asetwithoutremoving it (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Tue Nov 10 15:27:30 CET 2009


Antoine Pitrou wrote:

Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan gmail.com> writes:

It's also one of the major reasons for not sharing mutable containers between threads if you can avoid it (and serialising access to them if you can't) Not necessarily, for example it is common to rely on the fact that list.append() is atomic.

s/"mutable containers"/"mutable-containers-that-object-loudly-to-their-size-changing-during-iteration -like-sets-and-dicts" :)

Cheers, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia



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