[Python-Dev] should a module's thread safety be documented?

2001年1月20日 17:05:27 -0500 (EST)

Skip Montanaro writes:
 > A bit late for 2.1alpha1, but it just occurred to me that perhaps there
 > should be an annotation in the documentation that indicates whether or not a
 > module is thread-safe. For example, many functions in fileinput rely on a
 If you can create a list of the known thread safe and known thread
unsafe modules, I'll come up with appropriate annotations for the
documentation.
 > Anyone for adding \notthreadsafe{} and \threadsafe{} macros to the litany of
 > LaTex macros in Fred's arsenal? This would make documenting these
 > properties both easy and consistent across modules.
 Not sure that this is exactly the right approach to the markup; I'll
think about this one.
 -Fred
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