[New-bugs-announce] [issue42647] Unable to use concurrent.futures in atexit hook

[Julien Danjou]

New submission from Julien Danjou <julien at danjou.info>:

Python 3.9 introduced a regression with concurrent.futures. The following program works fine on Python < 3.8 but raises an error on 3.9:

```
import atexit
import concurrent.futures

def spawn():
    with concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor() as t:
        pass

atexit.register(spawn)
```

```
$ python3.9 rep.py
Error in atexit._run_exitfuncs:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1007, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 986, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 680, in _load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 790, in exec_module
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 228, in _call_with_frames_removed
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python at 3.9/3.9.0_3/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/concurrent/futures/thread.py", line 37, in <module>
    threading._register_atexit(_python_exit)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python at 3.9/3.9.0_3/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/threading.py", line 1370, in _register_atexit
    raise RuntimeError("can't register atexit after shutdown")
RuntimeError: can't register atexit after shutdown
```

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messages: 383058
nosy: jd
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Unable to use concurrent.futures in atexit hook
type: crash
versions: Python 3.9

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