Python 3 "Lock" for both: threads and processes

Question

I am trying to encode a cache in python 3 and I want to avoid concurrency problems for both threads and processes.

I used threading for thread safe code and multiprocessing for process security.

I can solve my problem using Lock from threading and Lock from multiprocessing at the same time. But I was wondering if there is a “common” Lock for this or something like that.

Thank you in advance, -)

Answer 1

You cannot use the same class for locks in a process, or for locks of cross processes. The implementations are quite different.

Your current strategy is correct.