[Python-Dev] Weak Dictionary Iteration Behavior in Python 3 (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sun Sep 14 13:59:39 CEST 2008

Armin Ronacher wrote:

Speaking of atom keys() / values() / items() operations: I guess we will see more of those problems in threaded situations when people start to convert code over to Python. I've seen quite a few situations where code relays on keys() holding the interpreter lock.

list(iter) doesn't re-enter the eval loop if the iterator is written in C and hence won't let go of the GIL. As I believe the dict views in 3.0 are all C classes, I'd like to see a failing test case along these lines that doesn't involve a dict subclass and code written in Python.

Note that I'm not saying that I know for certain that there aren't any problems with list(d.keys()) that aren't seen with the direct list conversion in 2.x - I'm just saying it may not be as easy to provoke such problems as it initially appears due to the way the list constructor interacts with the supplied iterable, so it is going to take an actual failing test case to convince me.

Cheers, Nick.

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