[Python-3000] patch: bytes object PyBUF_LOCKDATA read-only and immutable support (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Sep 12 00:52:32 CEST 2007


Guido van Rossum wrote:

0 -> 1 -> 2 -> ... (SIMPLE or WRITABLE get) ... -> 2 -> 1 -> ... (SIMPLE or WRITABLE release) 0 -> -1 (LOCKDATA get) -1 -> 0 (LOCKDATA release)

And if this is the correct interpretation, the requests should be called something like READ_LOCK and WRITE_LOCK to make this clear.

-- Greg



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