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On 08/04/2014 17:38, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Sturla Molden <sturla.molden@gmail.com> writes:
>> As it turns out, if you try hard enough, you can always construct a race
>> condition, deadlock or a livelock. If you need to guard against it, there
>> is paradigms like BSP, but not everything fits in. a BSP design.
>
> Software transactional memory (STM) may also be of interest, though
> it's not that great a fit with Python.
>

The pypy folks have been looking at this see 
http://pypy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/stm.html

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask 
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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