On Sun, 12 Sep 2010 03:18:19 am Steven D'Aprano wrote: > But that hasn't done anything to prevent race conditions. So the real > reason people use LBYL is that they're too lazy to write hideously > ugly, but reliable, code, and they're just hoping that they will > never expose the race condition. (Often this is a pretty safe hope, > but not always.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostrich_algorithm -- Steven D'Aprano _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
