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[Python-Dev] 2.3.3 plans

Skip Montanaro skip at pobox.com
Mon Oct 6 16:59:51 EDT 2003 
    Martin> Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> writes:
    >> I think it would be real nice if we hammered hard on the bsddb3
    >> problems.  Whatever it is, it seems to affect a broad cross-section
    >> of the community.

    Martin> But is there a single report that cannot be attributed to
    Martin> multi-threading, or multi-processes?

I don't know.  But the fact that we have so far been unable to answer even
this question reliably means we have some work to do.  I have been assuming
that the problems have all been related to access from multiple threads or
processes, but others haven't seemed so sure.  What about the popitem()
hangs?

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