Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > comp.lang.python > #75905

Re: Specifying `blocking` and `timeout` when acquiring lock as a context manager

Show key headers only | View raw

On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 7:25 AM, Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> On 08/08/2014 04:51 AM, cool-RR wrote:
>>
>>
>> If I want to acquire a `threading.Lock` using the context manager
>> protocol,
>>  is it possible to specify the `blocking` and `timeout` arguments that
>>  `acquire` would usually take?
>
>
> Not that I know of, but why would you want to?  There's no built-in 'if'
> with a 'with' block -- how would your code know whether it ran or not?

@contextmanager
def locking(lock, blocking=False, timeout=-1):
  try:
    yield lock.acquire(blocking, timeout)
  finally:
    lock.release()

with locking(lock, timeout=5) as acquired:
  if acquired:
    print('yay!')

Back to comp.lang.python | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

Specifying `blocking` and `timeout` when acquiring lock as a context manager cool-RR <ram.rachum@gmail.com> - 2014-08-08 04:51 -0700
  Re: Specifying `blocking` and `timeout` when acquiring lock as a context manager Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-08-08 06:25 -0700
  Re: Specifying `blocking` and `timeout` when acquiring lock as a context manager "Neil D. Cerutti" <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2014-08-08 12:05 -0400
  Re: Specifying `blocking` and `timeout` when acquiring lock as a context manager Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-08-09 02:16 +1000
  Re: Specifying `blocking` and `timeout` when acquiring lock as a context manager "Neil D. Cerutti" <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2014-08-08 14:35 -0400
  Re: Specifying `blocking` and `timeout` when acquiring lock as a context manager "Neil D. Cerutti" <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2014-08-08 14:57 -0400
  Re: Specifying `blocking` and `timeout` when acquiring lock as a context manager Chris Kaynor <ckaynor@zindagigames.com> - 2014-08-08 12:07 -0700
  Re: Specifying `blocking` and `timeout` when acquiring lock as a context manager Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-08-08 13:21 -0600
  Re: Specifying `blocking` and `timeout` when acquiring lock as a context manager Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-08-09 08:57 +1000

csiph-web