[Python-Dev] usefulness of Python version of threading.RLock (original) (raw)

Robert Collins robertc at robertcollins.net
Fri Jan 6 03:43:32 CET 2012

On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

>From what I understand, the biggest motivation for pure Python versions is cooperation with the other Python implementations.  See http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0399/ Apologies, I didn't remember it was written down in PEP. A bit more than a school of thought, then :-)

It needs to be correct to aid other implementation though, doesn't it?

Copying/reusing something buggy won't help...

-Rob

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