[Python-Dev] PEP 3148 ready for pronouncement (original) (raw)

Dj Gilcrease digitalxero at gmail.com
Fri May 21 21:30:13 CEST 2010

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 8:26 AM, Brian Quinlan <brian at sweetapp.com> wrote:

Except that now isn't the time for that discussion. This PEP has discussed on-and-off for several months on both stdlib-sig and python-dev.

I think any time till the PEP is accepted is a good time to discuss changes to the API

Issues with the PEP:

  1. Examples as written fail on windows. Patch to fix @ http://code.google.com/p/pythonfutures/issues/detail?id=5

Issues with Implementation:

  1. Globals are used for tracking running threads (but not processes) and shutdown state, but are not accessed as a globals every where they are modified so it could be inconsistent.

  2. The atexit handle randomly throws an exception on exit on windows when running the tests or examples.

Error in atexit._run_exitfuncs: TypeError: print_exception(): Exception expected for value, str found

Issues 1 & 2 would be solved by moving thread tracking back into the executor responsible for the threads, or making a singleton that tracked threads / processes for all executors. http://code.google.com/p/pythonfutures/issues/detail?id=6 is one such implementation

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