[Python-Dev] Bootstrap issue: "select" is compiled "too late"

[Brett Cannon]

On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Jesus Cea <jcea at jcea.es> wrote:

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> On 04/10/12 14:34, Benjamin Peterson wrote:
> > 2012/10/4 Jesus Cea <jcea at jcea.es>:
> >> Any suggestion about how to solve this?
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> > Easy solutions include somehow removing the dependence on
> > subprocess or moving the import of subprocess into the function
> > that uses it.
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> Moving the import into the function that needs it solves the issue.
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> See <http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/d6d908dc11f2>.
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> Thanks for the suggestion, Benjamin.


This used to be a no-no, though, because if someone called that function in
a thread during an import it would deadlock. Now Antoine reworked the locks
so I don't know if this is still true or not.

-Brett
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