PSP error page accessing session object can cause a deadlock.
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         Key: MODPYTHON-175
         URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MODPYTHON-175
     Project: mod_python
        Type: Bug

    Versions: 3.2.8    
    Reporter: Graham Dumpleton


If a session object is required for a PSP page, the session object will be 
created automatically with the session being locked at the same time, when 
PSP.run() is called. If an error page is generated by the session page it in 
turn will then be run. The problem is that the session lock is still held by 
the main page and thus if the error page itself tries to also access the 
session object, when the PSP.run() method of the error page is called, it will 
create a new instance of the session object which will result in a deadlock.

In MODPYTHON-38, the suggested change was that when PSP.run() creates the 
session object that it assign it back to req.session. This change was not made, 
but if it was then when the error page was run, it would simply have inherited 
the session object which had already been created by the main page and a 
deadlock would not have ensued.

Thus could should read as:

        session = None
        if "session" in code.co_names:
            if hasattr(req, 'session'):
                session = req.session
            else:
                req.session = session = Session.Session(req)


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