http://simonwillison.net/2010-02-01T10:15:02+00:00Simon Willison2010-02-01T10:15:02+00:002010-02-01T10:15:02+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2010/Feb/1/distributed/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://amix.dk/blog/post/19386">Distributed lock on top of memcached</a></strong></p> 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. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/concurrency">concurrency</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/contextmanager">contextmanager</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/locking">locking</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/memcached">memcached</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/plurk">plurk</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/redis">redis</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/with">with</a></p>

2009-08-07T15:47:00+00:002009-08-07T15:47:00+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Aug/7/something/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.mechanicalcat.net/richard/log/Python/Something_I_m_working_on.3">Richard Jones: Something I&#x27;m working on...</a></strong></p> 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. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/dsl">dsl</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/gui">gui</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/richard-jones">richard-jones</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/with">with</a></p>