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``tornado.locks`` -- Synchronization primitives
===============================================
.. versionadded:: 4.2
Coordinate coroutines with synchronization primitives analogous to those the
standard library provides to threads.
*(Note that these primitives are not actually thread-safe and cannot be used in
place of those from the standard library--they are meant to coordinate Tornado
coroutines in a single-threaded app, not to protect shared objects in a
multithreaded app.)*
.. _the-wait-notify-pattern:
The Wait / Notify Pattern
=========================
Tornado locks follow a "wait / notify pattern": one coroutine waits to be
notified by another. Take `~tornado.locks.Condition` as an example:
.. testcode::
from tornado import ioloop, gen, locks
io_loop = ioloop.IOLoop.current()
condition = locks.Condition()
@gen.coroutine
def waiter():
print("I'll wait right here")
yield condition.wait() # Yield a Future.
print("I'm done waiting")
@gen.coroutine
def notifier():
print("About to notify")
condition.notify()
print("Done notifying")
@gen.coroutine
def runner():
# Yield two Futures; wait for waiter() and notifier() to finish.
yield [waiter(), notifier()]
io_loop.run_sync(runner)
.. testoutput::
I'll wait right here
About to notify
Done notifying
I'm done waiting
Wait-methods take an optional ``timeout`` argument, which is either an
absolute timestamp::
io_loop = ioloop.IOLoop.current()
# Wait up to 1 second for a notification.
yield condition.wait(deadline=io_loop.time() + 1)
...or a `datetime.timedelta` for a deadline relative to the current time::
# Wait up to 1 second.
yield condition.wait(deadline=datetime.timedelta(seconds=1))
The method raises `tornado.gen.TimeoutError` if there's no notification
before the deadline.
.. automodule:: tornado.locks
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