threads blocked during import?
Aahz Maruch
aahz at panix.com
Tue Apr 10 21:18:38 EDT 2001
In article <mailman.986930653.2113.python-list at python.org>,
Geoff Talvola <gtalvola at nameconnector.com> wrote:
>
>I was wondering the other day: if two threads try to import the same module
>at the same time, what happens? I wrote a test program, and it looks like
>an import blocks all other threads from importing. This is probably a good
>thing, since you only want the module to be imported once.
Yup. See Python/import.c
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