Simon Willison’s Weblog

Distributed lock on top of memcached. A simple Python context manager (taking advantage of the with statement) that implements a distributed lock using memcached to store lock state: “memcached_lock can be used to ensure that some global data is only updated by one server”. Redis would work well for this kind of thing as well.

# 1st February 2010, 10:15 am / concurrency, contextmanager, locking, memcached, plurk, python, redis, with

Richard Jones: Something I’m working on... Python’s with statement appears to provide just enough syntactic sugar to create some really interesting DSL-style APIs—here’s a very promising example for laying out GUI applications.

# 7th August 2009, 3:47 pm / dsl, gui, python, richard-jones, with