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# Copyright (c) 2010 - 2012 by Wilbert Berendsen
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"""
Manages locking access (across threads) to Poppler.Document instances.
"""

import threading
import weakref

_locks = weakref.WeakKeyDictionary()
_lock = threading.RLock()


def lock(document):
    """Returns a threading.RLock instance for the given Poppler.Document.
    
    Use:
    
    with lock(document):
        do_something
        
    """
    with _lock:
        try:
            return _locks[document]
        except KeyError:
            res = _locks[document] = threading.RLock()
        return res

