hi there,
> On Tuesday 15 December 2009 02:49:00 Dave Angel wrote:
> > Since I don't see any other responses, I'll give my guess, even though
> > I'm not very experienced with the multiprocessing module.
> >
> > It's my understanding that threads may not be created or destroyed
> > during an import. So you need to find a way to defer the creation till
> > the imports are done.
>
> yes, I figured this much and I already wrapped my module with a
> ModuleFacade object which has lazy properties attributes [1].
> this solves the problem of import my module, but if the module importing my
> module is itself being imported, I am back to square one.
>
> and my module is being used by many people.
>
> I guess I'd need at least a way to detect that somebody is trying to use
> the lazy properties of my module facade while an import is "still active".
> is there such a mechanism ?
digging thru the imp.py module, I devised this simple snippet:
import imp
[...]
if imp.lock_held():
raise RuntimeError('some crystal clear error message')
thanks for the help :)
cheers,
sebastien.
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