simple Thread question

[Aahz]

In article <aqOdnXhiyaIBY77cRVn-jA at powergate.ca>,
Peter Hansen  <peter at engcorp.com> wrote:
>Aahz wrote:
>> In article <l82dnQLW7bZOIb_cRVn-qQ at powergate.ca>,
>> Peter Hansen  <peter at engcorp.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>While it's true that that is all that's needed, it is not required,
>>>and doesn't really provide any performance improvements.  I often do
>>>the above sort of thing where I use a given module in only one place,
>>>especially when using threads where it feels subtly cleaner to defer
>>>loading of some modules until the thread actually starts.
>> 
>> Except that the import lock makes this a Bad Idea, IMO.
>
>Does the import lock apply to the first import, or even
>to all later ones where it can just find it in sys.modules?

It applies to all -- after all, sys.modules gets updated before the
module code is run...
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