The tragic tale of the deadlocking Python queue

[Terry Reedy]

On 8/17/2017 4:31 AM, breamoreboy at gmail.com wrote:
> I found it interesting, possibly some of you may feel the same way so here it is https://codewithoutrules.com/2017/08/16/concurrency-python/

The intro ends with "Weep when you read the response of Python’s 
maintainers!", referring to https://bugs.python.org/issue14976.  The 
issue was originally about signals, threads, and Queue's, which Itamar 
admits "don't interact well".  The solution to that was to document 
"Don't do this.".

Followup: When Itamar posted, yesterday, a clear demonstration that 
there is a bug in other, more reasonable code, the response has been to 
reopen the issue, with a plan to rewrite in C using (somewhat 
ironically) the (somewhat hated) GIL as a lock.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy