Source code for qpageview.locking
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
#
# This file is part of the qpageview package.
#
# Copyright (c) 2010 - 2019 by Wilbert Berendsen
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
# as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3
# of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
# See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/ for more information.
"""
Manages locking access (across threads) to any object.
Use it for example to lock access to Document instances.
"""
import threading
import weakref
_locks = weakref.WeakKeyDictionary()
_lock = threading.RLock()
[docs]
def lock(item):
"""Return a threading.RLock instance for the given item.
Use:
with lock(document):
do_something
"""
with _lock:
try:
return _locks[item]
except KeyError:
res = _locks[item] = threading.RLock()
return res