Some of Python's traditional data structure features provide various degrees of thread safety by default. However, in most cases, we will have to define some form of a locking mechanism for controlling access to these data structures in order to guarantee thread safety.
Standard data structures
Sets
During my time working with communication between multiple threads in Python, I discovered that one excellent solution to using sets in a thread-safe manner is to actually extend the set class, and to implement my own locking mechanism around the actions that I wish to perform.
