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Jan. 8, 2003
6:15 a.m.
Then you get a deadlock. However, it was not your (stated) goal to support this case. You mentioned threads that Python had never seen before - there can't be a thread state higher up in such a thread.
My mistake - I used "i.e." in place of "e.g.". However, "arbitrary" is fairly clear. Mark.