[Python-Dev] threading.Semaphore()'s counter can become negative for non-ints (original) (raw)

Raymond Hettinger raymond.hettinger at gmail.com
Tue Jan 31 21:10:16 CET 2012


On Jan 29, 2012, at 6:11 PM, John O'Connor wrote:

On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> wrote:

But why would you want to pass a float? It seems like API abuse to me.

Agreed. Anything else seems meaningless.

I concur. This is very much a non-problem. There is no need to add more code and slow running time with superfluous type checks.

Raymond

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