On Thu, 4 Oct 2012 22:08:40 +0530 Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 7:54 PM, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > > This used to be a no-no, though, because if someone called that function in > > a thread during an import it would deadlock. Now Antoine reworked the locks > > so I don't know if this is still true or not. > > You can still technically deadlock, but you need a circular import > *and* two different threads that start at different parts of the > cycle.
Actually, this is detected and handled fine (a partial module is returned to one of the two threads): http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/b08416a31d15/Lib/test/test_threaded_import.py#l170 http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/b08416a31d15/Lib/test/test_importlib/test_locks.py#l43 Regards Antoine. -- Software development and contracting: http://pro.pitrou.net _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
