STINNER Victor <vstin...@python.org> added the comment:
There are different ways to fix this issue: * (A) Rewrite threading.enumerate() in C with code which cannot trigger a GC collection * (B) Disable temporarily the GC * (C) Use a reentrant lock (PR 26727) (A) The problem is that functions other than threading.enumerate() also rely on this lock, like threading.active_count(). I would prefer to not have to rewrite "half" of threading.py in C. Using a RLock is less intrusive. (B) This is a simple and reliable option. But gc.disable() is process-wide: it affects all Python threads, and so it might have surprising side effects. Some code might rely on the current exact GC behavior. I would prefer to not disable the GC temporarily. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue44422> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com