STINNER Victor <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com> added the comment: > If the import lock is changed to raise an exception, > heaps of multi-threaded software will be broken.
You are right. It has done so for 12 years already (10011), so it's a bit late to do anything about it. And backward compatibility is very important, so I close this issue. ---------- status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10923> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
