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 ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9901> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com