Raymond Hettinger added the comment:
I'm wondering if the expiringdict(1) needs to have locked wrappers for the
inherited methods:
def __delitem__(self, key):
with self.lock:
OrderedDict.__delitem__(self, key)
Otherwise, there is a risk that one thread is deleting a key with no lock held,
while another thread is running expiringdict.popitem() which holds a lock while
calling both __getitem__ and del. If the first thread runs between the two
steps in the second, the race condition would cause a KeyError.
This might explain why you've observed, '''Replacing use of popitem() with "del
self[next(OrderedDict.__iter__(self))]" removes the KeyErrors and the structure
otherwise works fine.'''
(1) https://github.com/mailgun/expiringdict/blob/master/expiringdict/__init__.py
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nosy: +rhettinger
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