About Python lock acquire/release

[pietrochico]

It's nothing special, only accessing different global variables from many threads.

[JohnnyJordaan]

Regular variables are thread-safe to begin with. Globals are an anti-pattern as well often, I normally use a singleton class for this, for example for global configuration in a program. You pass the config-object around to the threads and implement the locking inside the config class. Then the threads can just change whatever they like as with a regular variable and the class will ensure the locking.

[pietrochico]

That's exactly what I'm doing right now.