Threaded import hang in cPickle.dumps

[Zac Burns]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> wrote:
> Zac Burns <zac256 <at> gmail.com> writes:
>> What can I do about this?
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> Not run it in a thread.
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Isn't requesting that pickle not be used in a thread a bit of a tall
order? Just thinking through the common use cases - database access,
server request threads, file IO... pickle is commonly used in threads.

Furthermore, the pickle documentation makes no mention of not being threadsafe.

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