A.M. Kuchling li...@amk.ca added the comment:
Added a warning to 2.x trunk in r79607, and Gabriel's doc change in r79608.
This thread-unsafety seems specialized and rarely of great importance, so I
used the note:: directive, not warning::.
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nosy: +akuchling
resolution: - fixed
Gabriel Genellina gagsl-...@yahoo.com.ar added the comment:
Document that warnings.catch_warnings is not thread safe.
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keywords: +patch
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file15341/warnings.diff
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Antoine Pitrou pit...@free.fr added the comment:
Any function whose purpose is to mutate global (non thread-local) state
is inherently thread-unsafe. The only reasonable possibility is to
document it as such.
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assignee: - georg.brandl
components: +Documentation
nosy: +georg.brandl,
New submission from Gabriel Genellina gagsl-...@yahoo.com.ar:
warnings.catch_warnings is a context manager supposed to save and
restore warnings filters, and optionally record all warnings issued.
But it does so in a completely thread-unsafe way, by replacing the
module's showwarning and
