[New-bugs-announce] [issue1868] threading.local doesn't free attrs when assigning thread exits

[Peter Fein]

New submission from Peter Fein:

threading.local doesn't free attributes assigned to a local() instance
when the assigning thread exits.  See attached patch for
_threading_local.py doctests.

Per discussion with Crys and arkanes in #python, this may be an issue
with  PyThreadState_Clear / PyThreadState_GetDict

This appears to affect both thread._local and _threading_local.py

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components: Library (Lib)
files: _threading_local.py.patch
messages: 60127
nosy: pfein
severity: normal
status: open
title: threading.local doesn't free attrs when assigning thread exits
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.5
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file9212/_threading_local.py.patch

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