solipsis at pitrou
May 6, 2012, 12:48 PM
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Re: cpython: Make AcquirerProxy.acquire() support timeout argument
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On Sun, 06 May 2012 18:58:10 +0100
shibturn <shibturn [at] gmail> wrote:
> 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
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> > Should it have a Misc/NEWS entry? (and a doc addition perhaps?)
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> 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.
Ok; if it's a bug it should have a NEWS entry, though.
> 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.
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> Maybe these inconsistencies should be documented or eliminated?
I don't know. Ideally both would have raised ValueError on negative
timeouts, but it's probably too late :-)
cheers
Antoine.
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