[Python-Dev] Deadlock by a second import in a thread

[Nick Coghlan]

Facundo Batista wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I was looking to this bug:   http://bugs.python.org/issue1255
> 
> It basically creates a deadlock in Python by doing the following:
> 
> - aa.py imports bb.py
> - bb.py imports time and generates a thread

bb.py is broken - importing a module should never spawn a new thread as 
a side effect (precisely because it will deadlock if the spawned thread 
tries to do an import, which can happen in a myriad of ways).

Cheers,
Nick.

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