Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment:

Moving the _PyEval_FiniThreads() call to Py_Initialize() solves the issue:

diff -r 9e49082da463 Python/pythonrun.c
--- a/Python/pythonrun.c        Mon Sep 20 12:46:56 2010 +0200
+++ b/Python/pythonrun.c        Mon Sep 20 13:41:47 2010 +0200
@@ -217,8 +217,15 @@ Py_InitializeEx(int install_sigs)
         Py_FatalError("Py_Initialize: can't make first thread");
     (void) PyThreadState_Swap(tstate);
 
-    /* auto-thread-state API, if available */
 #ifdef WITH_THREAD
+    /* We can't call _PyEval_FiniThreads() in Py_Finalize because
+       destroying the GIL might fail when it is being referenced from
+       another running thread (see issue #9901).
+       Instead we destroy the previously created GIL here, which ensures
+       that we can call Py_Initialize / Py_Finalize multiple times. */
+    _PyEval_FiniThreads();
+
+    /* Auto-thread-state API */
     _PyGILState_Init(interp, tstate);
 #endif /* WITH_THREAD */
 
@@ -514,10 +521,6 @@ Py_Finalize(void)
 
     PyGrammar_RemoveAccelerators(&_PyParser_Grammar);
 
-#ifdef WITH_THREAD
-    _PyEval_FiniThreads();
-#endif
-
 #ifdef Py_TRACE_REFS
     /* Display addresses (& refcnts) of all objects still alive.
      * An address can be used to find the repr of the object, printed

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