python thread safe mutable object copy

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Is python's copy module thread safe?

If not, how should I copy\deepcopy mutable objects in a thread-safe manner in python?

isn't everything (more ore less) thread safe in python... that's why the GIL keeps locking up... — jcr
– jcr, Commented Jun 26, 2013 at 14:34

Jonathan Livni · Accepted Answer · 2013-06-27 09:04:27Z

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Python's GIL protects bytecodes, not Python statements (see short or long explanations). As both copy.copy() and copy.deepcopy() are implemented in python, they are certainly more than a single bytecode, so no, they are not thread safe!

If you must work with multiple threads, and there are many cases you should such as having IO dedicated threads, do what must be done - use threading.Lock(). Notice you can use the elegant with statement with the lock object.

answered Jun 27, 2013 at 9:04

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iperov Over a year ago

wrong answer. Python collections are thread-safe. They themselves don't go corrupt, but their data may.

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