Last week, we looked at the fundamentals of Python (https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2003/0602gearhead.html) so this week we’ll examine some of the larger ...

A fundamental of file systems since their inception has been their locking mechanisms. These exist so that different users and applications working on the same file (or region of a file) ...

This is perhaps a fork of this thread insomuch as it was what got me thinking again about best ways of doing these things. Immutable objects are handy since they help with thread-safety and even just ...