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Python Parallel Programming Cookbook
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Python Parallel Programming Cookbook

by Giancarlo Zaccone
August 2015
Intermediate to advanced
286 pages
5h 42m
English
Packt Publishing
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Thread synchronization with Lock and RLock

When two or more operations belonging to concurrent threads try to access the shared memory and at least one of them has the power to change the status of the data without a proper synchronization mechanism a race condition can occur and it can produce invalid code execution and bugs and unexpected behavior. The easiest way to get around the race conditions is the use of a lock. The operation of a lock is simple; when a thread wants to access a portion of shared memory, it must necessarily acquire a lock on that portion prior to using it. In addition to this, after completing its operation, the thread must release the lock that was previously obtained so that a portion of the shared memory is available ...

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