Message 110318 - Python tracker

Message110318

Author	pitrou
Recipients	belopolsky, brett.cannon, christian.heimes, grahamd, gvanrossum, ncoghlan, pitrou
Date	2010-07-14.19:34:32
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> So I say we don't worry about loaders being thread-safe. If __import__ > handles the locking for a specific module then it will hold the lock > on behalf of the loader. Yes but what happens if two different modules are imported from two different threads, and handled by the same loader? The loader could have global structures which rely on serialization of imports for consistency.

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> So I say we don't worry about loaders being thread-safe. If __import__
> handles the locking for a specific module then it will hold the lock
> on behalf of the loader.

Yes but what happens if two different modules are imported from two
different threads, and handled by the same loader? The loader could have
global structures which rely on serialization of imports for
consistency.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2010-07-14 19:34:35	pitrou	set	recipients: + pitrou, gvanrossum, brett.cannon, ncoghlan, belopolsky, christian.heimes, grahamd
2010-07-14 19:34:33	pitrou	link	issue9260 messages
2010-07-14 19:34:32	pitrou	create