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Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 17:32:11 -0700
Subject: an error in python lib?
From: Wenhua Zhao <whz...@gmail.com>
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Hi list,

I just noticed that in /usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py

class _Condition(_Verbose):
    ...
    def _is_owned(self):
        # Return True if lock is owned by current_thread.
        # This method is called only if __lock doesn't have
_is_owned().
        if self.__lock.acquire(0):
            self.__lock.release()
            return False
        else:
            return True

The return values seem to be wrong.  They should be swapped:

    def _is_owned(self):
        if self.__lock.acquire(0):
            self.__lock.release()
            return True
        else:
            return False

Or I understood it wrong here?

Thanks,
Wenhua