On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 7:54 PM, Brett Cannon <[email protected]> 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.

Cheers,
Nick.

-- 
Nick Coghlan   |   [email protected]   |   Brisbane, Australia
_______________________________________________
Python-Dev mailing list
[email protected]
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev
Unsubscribe: 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

Reply via email to