[issue24882] ThreadPoolExecutor doesn't reuse threads until #threads == max_workers

David MacKenzie added the comment: If each worker thread ties up other resources in an application, such as handles to server connections, conserving threads could have a significant impact. That's the situation for an application I am involved with. I've written and tested a pat

[issue24882] ThreadPoolExecutor doesn't reuse threads until #threads == max_workers

David MacKenzie added the comment: This issue seems to overlap with 14119. -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue24882> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list m

[issue27167] subprocess reports signal as negative exit status, not documented

New submission from David MacKenzie: If a command run by subprocess.check_call() exits because of a signal, e.g. SIGPIPE, Popen._handle_exitstatus() encodes the signal number as a negative return code. check_call() then raises that as a CalledProcessError, which describes it as "returne