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Thu Oct 4 18:38:40 CEST 2012 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-October/122065.html

On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 7:54 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> 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.

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Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia

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