Bug#777692: ITP: python-pthreading -- Reimplement threading.Lock, RLock and Condition with libpthr

[Simone Tiraboschi <stirabos@redhat.com>]

Package: wnpp
Owner: stirabos <stirabos@redhat.com>
Severity: wishlist

* Package name : python-pthreading
  Version : 0.1.3-3
  Upstream Author : Dan Kenigsberg <danken@redhat.com> * URL : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pthreading * License : GNU GPLv2+
  Programming Lang: Python
  Description : Reimplement threading.Lock, RLock and Condition with libpthr
 Reimplement threading.Lock, RLock and Condition with libpthread
 .
 The pthreading module provides Lock and Condition synchronization
 objects compatible with Python native threading module.
 The implementation, however, is based on POSIX thread library as delivered
 by the libpthread. Lock and Condition are designed to be a drop-in
 replacement for their respective threading counterpart.
 .
 Take a look at threading.py of Python 2. Notice that Event.wait() wakes 20
 times a second and checks if the event has been set. This CPU hogging has been
 fixed in Python 3, but is not expected to change during Python 2 lifetime.
 .
 To avoid this waste of resources, put in your main module::
 .
     import pthreading
     pthreading monkey_patch()
 .
 This would hack the Linux-native threading module, and make it use Linux-native
 POSIX synchronization objects.
 .