Metadata-Version: 1.0
Name: atomiclong
Version: 0.1.1
Summary: An AtomicLong type using CFFI.
Home-page: https://github.com/dreid/atomiclong
Author: David Reid
Author-email: dreid@dreid.org
License: MIT
Description: AtomicLong
        ==========
        
        Sometimes you need to increment some numbers
        ... atomically
        ... in python.
        
        ``AtomicLong`` was born out of the need for fast thread-safe counters in python.
        
        It uses `CFFI`_ to bind `GCC's Atomic Builtins`_.
        
        It's value is a C ``long`` which can be incremented, decremented, and set
        atomically.  It is inspired by Java's `java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicLong`_.
        
        Example::
        
            >>> from atomiclong import AtomicLong
            >>> a = AtomicLong(0)
            >>> a += 1
            >>> a.value
            1
            >>> a += 10
            >>> a.value
            11
            >>> a.value = 1000
            >>> a.value
            1000
            >>> a -= 100
            >>> a.value
            900
        
        
        .. _GCC's Atomic Builtins: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.3.5/gcc/Atomic-Builtins.html
        
        .. _CFFI: https://cffi.readthedocs.org
        
        .. _java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicLong: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/concurrent/atomic/AtomicLong.html
        
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