[Python-Dev] cpython: Make AcquirerProxy.acquire() support timeout argument (original) (raw)

shibturn shibturn at gmail.com
Sun May 6 19:58:10 CEST 2012

On 06/05/2012 5:07pm, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

On Sun, 06 May 2012 17:56:55 +0200

summary: Make AcquirerProxy.acquire() support timeout argument Should it have a Misc/NEWS entry? (and a doc addition perhaps?)

Since proxies for locks/semaphores are supposed to work the same way as the proxied object from threading, one could argue that the lack of support in 3.2 was a bug.

I notice now that multiprocessing..acquire() and threading..wait() treat negative timeouts as zero timeouts. On the other hand, threading.*.acquire() treat negative timeouts as infinite.

Maybe these inconsistencies should be documented or eliminated?

As currently implemented AcquirerProxy.acquire() treats negative timeouts as infinite.

Cheers

Richard

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