[reportlab-users] PyRXP

Chris Withers reportlab-users@reportlab.com
Mon, 12 Jul 2004 09:16:00 +0100


Dennis Allison wrote:

> We are now re-engineering our system a bit and rethinking how things are
> organized.  I vaguely remember a comment a while back that PyRXP is not 
> thread-safe.  We've been using it in a multi-threaded Python environment 
> (Zope) without a problem, but the concurrency is fairly low and have never
> seen any problem.  We are scaling up and so thread-safety will become more 
> of an issue as loads increase.  Has any thought/effort gone into making a 
> thread-safe version?

Depending on how heavily used the PyRXP process is, you can just put a bulk-lock 
around however it's being called...

Chris

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