[Python-checkins] r87939 - python/branches/py3k/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst

Tue Jan 11 21:51:45 CET 2011

Author: raymond.hettinger
Date: Tue Jan 11 21:51:45 2011
New Revision: 87939
Log:
Clean-up threading.Barrier example.
Modified:
 python/branches/py3k/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst
Modified: python/branches/py3k/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst
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--- python/branches/py3k/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst	(original)
+++ python/branches/py3k/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst	Tue Jan 11 21:51:45 2011
@@ -846,7 +846,7 @@
 summarize(ballots)
 
 all_polls_closed = Barrier(len(sites))
- for site in sites(get_votes(site)):
+ for site in sites:
 Thread(target=get_votes, args=(site,)).start()
 
 In this example, the barrier enforces a rule that votes cannot be counted at any
@@ -856,10 +856,13 @@
 crossed.
 
 See `Barrier Synchronization Patterns
-<http://parlab.eecs.berkeley.edu/wiki/_media/patterns/paraplop_g1_3.pdf>`_
-for more examples of how barriers can be used in parallel computing.
+<http://parlab.eecs.berkeley.edu/wiki/_media/patterns/paraplop_g1_3.pdf>`_ for
+more examples of how barriers can be used in parallel computing. Also, there is
+a simple but thorough explanation of barriers in `The Little Book of Semaphores
+<http://greenteapress.com/semaphores/downey08semaphores.pdf>`_, *section 3.6*.
 
-(Contributed by Kristján Valur Jónsson in :issue:`8777`.)
+(Contributed by Kristján Valur Jónsson with an API review by Jeffrey Yasskin in
+:issue:`8777`.)
 
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