[issue7739] time.strftime may hung while trying to open /etc/localtime but does not release GIL

[Alexander Belopolsky]

Alexander Belopolsky <belopolsky at users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:

-1 on releasing the GIL around strftime().  Until we have an implementation that can support multiple locales and multiple timezones, people will work around this limitation by messing up with the TZ environment variable or global locale settings.

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assignee: belopolsky -> 
stage:  -> patch review
type:  -> performance
versions: +Python 3.3 -Python 2.6

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