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Re: Writing to same file from two threads

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Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> wrote:
> Jens Thoms Toerring <jt <at> toerring.de> writes:
> > 
> > Paul Rubin <no.email <at> nospam.invalid> wrote:
> > > jt <at> toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) writes:
> > > > in garbled output (i.e. having some output from A inside a
> > > > line written by B or vice versae) because the "main thread" or
> > 
> > > Yes they do get garbled like that.  Preferred Python style is put a
> > > single thread in charge of all the i/o to that file, and communicate
> > > with it by message passing through Queue objects.  That is safer than
> > > directly using locks.
> > 
> > Thank you for confirmig my suspicion But you have induced
> > another question: why is using a Queue safer than locking (not
> > that I doubt that it might be more elegant etc.). Is it "safer"
> > because it's less likely that one gets it wrong (e.g. by for-
> > grtting to acquire the lock) or is there something inherently
> > unsafe about locks?

> For the record, binary files are thread-safe in Python 3, but text files
> are not.
> Locks are safe if you use them well. As you point out, if you forget
> to acquire your lock, or if you devise a situation where there is a
> deadlock between competing locks, you can have difficult to diagnose
> issues. Queues have their internal locking all done for you.

Thank you for your kind answers!
                                  Best regards, Jens
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  \   Jens Thoms Toerring  ___      jt@toerring.de
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Writing to same file from two threads jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2013-02-26 15:17 +0000
  Re: Writing to same file from two threads Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-02-26 09:32 -0800
    Re: Writing to same file from two threads jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2013-02-26 20:08 +0000
      Re: Writing to same file from two threads Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> - 2013-02-27 13:26 +0000
        Re: Writing to same file from two threads jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2013-02-27 16:05 +0000
        Re: Writing to same file from two threads Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-02-28 01:05 +0000
          Re: Writing to same file from two threads Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> - 2013-03-01 14:54 +0000

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