title: Mutex locks vs Threading locks. Which to use?
body: <p>My main question is does the Threading lock object create atomic locks? It doesn't say that the lock is atomic in the module documentation. in pythons mutex documentation it does say the mutex lock is atomic but it seems that I read somewhere that in fact it isn't. I am wondering if someone could could give me a bit of insight on this mater. Which lock should I use. I am currently running my scripts using python 2.4 </p>