[Zope3-Users] Re: Reportlab threadsafe solution?

[Jim Washington]

Chris Withers wrote:
> Chris McDonough wrote:
>> Why not just use a mutex (a recursive lock makes things easier too)?
>
> Yeah, Big Fat Lock has been my solution with Reportlab, worked well 
> under high load for several years.
>
> I don't use RLocks myself, paranoia says they're not big or fat enough 
> ;-)
>
> Chris
>
Thanks, all, for the variety of interesting methodologies for addressing 
this.

I am going with the threading.Lock idea.

RLock would be overkill, since the module does not do anything 
foreseeably reentrant.  And, I would not want to think myself 
insufficiently paranoid.  :)

-Jim Washington