Thread safety issue (I think) with defaultdict

[Steve D'Aprano]

On Fri, 3 Nov 2017 02:32 pm, Stefan Ram wrote:

>   Here is an excerpt from a text from Edward E. Lee:
> 
> A part of the Ptolemy Project experiment was to see
> whether effective software engineering practices could be
> developed for an academic research setting.
[...]
> No problems were observed until the code deadlocked 
> on April 26, 2004, four years later.


That is a fantastic anecdote, thank you.



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Steve
“Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure
enough, things got worse.