what's the difference between Rlock and Lock?

来自StackOverflow上的问答：
The main difference is that a 

Lock

 can only be acquired once. It cannot be acquired again, until it is released. (After it's been released, it can be re-acaquired by any thread).An 

RLock

 on the other hand, can be acquired multiple times, by the same thread. It needs to be released the same number of times in order to be "unlocked".Another difference is that an acquired 

Lock

 can be released by any thread, while an acquired 

RLock

 can only be released by the thread which acquired it.
Here's an example demostrating why 

RLock

 is useful at times. Suppose you have:

def f():
g()
h()

def g():
h()
do_something1()

def h():
do_something2()

Let's say all of 

f

, 

g

, and 

h

 are public (i.e. can be called directly by an external caller), and all of them require syncronization.Using a 

Lock

, you can do something like:

lock = Lock()

def f():
with lock:
_g()
_h()

def g():
with lock:
_g()

def _g():
_h()
do_something1()

def h():
with lock:
_h()

def _h():
do_something2()

Basically, since 

f

 cannot call 

g

 after acquiring the lock, it needs to call a "raw" version of 

g

 (i.e. 

_g

). So you end up with a "synced" version and a "raw" version of each function.Using an 

RLock

 elegantly solves the problem:

lock = RLock()

def f():
with lock:
g()
h()

def g():
with lock:
h()
do_something1()

def h():
with lock:
do_something2()