[Pytables-users] How would you handle file openings for reading by an API?

[Jacob B. <jac...@gm...>]

Hello PyTables Users,

I am developing an API to access the current data stored in my pytables
instance. Note at this point that this is only reading, no writing to the
files. The big question on my mind at this point is how am I supposed to
handle the opening and closing of files on read requests that are
multithreaded? PyTables supports multithreading for read only; however, I
don't know how to handle two threads opening the same file or one thread
closing a file while the other is still reading it, besides putting a lock
on it thus disabling the multithreaded operations.

Thanks,
Jacob

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Jacob Bennett
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Class of 2014| ben...@mi...