Facundo Batista wrote: > Hi! > > I was looking to this bug: http://bugs.python.org/issue1255 > > It basically creates a deadlock in Python by doing the following: > > - aa.py imports bb.py > - bb.py imports time and generates a thread
bb.py is broken - importing a module should never spawn a new thread as a side effect (precisely because it will deadlock if the spawned thread tries to do an import, which can happen in a myriad of ways). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.boredomandlaziness.org _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com