I am trying to do some shared locking using with statements

def someMethod(self, hasLock = False):
     with self.my_lock:
         self.somethingElse(hasLock=True)


def somethingElse(self, hasLock = False):
    #I want this to be conditional...
    with self.my_lock:
          print 'i hate hello worlds"

That make sense? I basically only want to do the with if I don't already have the lock.

On top of being able to accomplish this, is it a bad design? Should I just acquire/release myself?

python locking with-statement
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