Python Conditional “With” Lock Design

Question

I am trying to do some shared locking using with statements

def someMethod(self, hasLock = False):
     with self.my_lock:
         self.somethingElse(hasLoc         


        

Answer 1

The with statement is a great way to implement locking, as locking is a perfect resource acquisition pattern. Though your current example won't work. You'll need an if statement around the with statement within somethingElse().