threads blocked during import?

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <mailman.986930653.2113.python-list at python.org>,
Geoff Talvola  <gtalvola at nameconnector.com> wrote:
>
>I was wondering the other day: if two threads try to import the same module 
>at the same time, what happens?  I wrote a test program, and it looks like 
>an import blocks all other threads from importing.  This is probably a good 
>thing, since you only want the module to be imported once.

Yup.  See Python/import.c
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