[Python-Dev] defaultdict proposal round three (original) (raw)

Ian Bicking ianb at colorstudy.com
Mon Feb 20 22:47:45 CET 2006


Guido van Rossum wrote:

Why are you so keen on using a dictionary to share data between threads that may both modify it? IMO this is asking for trouble -- the advice about sharing data between threads is always to use the Queue module.

I use them often for a shared caches. But yeah, it's harder than I thought at first -- I think the actual cases I'm using work, since they use simple keys (ints, strings), but yeah, thread guarantees are too difficult to handle in general. Damn threads.

-- Ian Bicking / ianb at colorstudy.com / http://blog.ianbicking.org



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