Gregory P. Smith <[email protected]> added the comment:
fyi - we just had a test run into this (in a flaky manner - definitely a race
condition) at work:
```
...
for f in inspect.stack(context=0)
File "<embedded stdlib>/inspect.py", line 1499, in stack
return getouterframes(sys._getframe(1), context)
File "<embedded stdlib>/inspect.py", line 1476, in getouterframes
frameinfo = (frame,) + getframeinfo(frame, context)
File "<embedded stdlib>/inspect.py", line 1446, in getframeinfo
filename = getsourcefile(frame) or getfile(frame)
File "<embedded stdlib>/inspect.py", line 696, in getsourcefile
if getattr(getmodule(object, filename), '__loader__', None) is not None:
File "<embedded stdlib>/inspect.py", line 732, in getmodule
for modname, module in list(sys.modules.items()):
RuntimeError: dictionary changed size during iteration
```
We haven't diagnosed what was leading to it though. Trust in the ability to
use inspect.stack() -> ... -> inspect.getmodule() in multithreaded code is on
the way out as a workaround.
(this was on 3.6.7)
A workaround we could checkin without consequences should be to change
list(sys.modules.items()) into list(sys.modules.copy().items()).
I was a bit surprised to see this happen at all, list(dict.items()) seems like
it should've been done entirely in C with the GIL held the entire time. but
maybe I'm just missing where the GIL would be released in the calls to exhause
the iterator made by
https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Objects/listobject.c ?
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nosy: +gregory.p.smith
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