[New-bugs-announce] [issue12861] PyOS_Readline uses single lock

[Albert Zeyer]

New submission from Albert Zeyer <albzey at googlemail.com>:

In Parser/myreadline.c PyOS_Readline uses a single lock (`_PyOS_ReadlineLock`). I guess it is so that we don't have messed up stdin reads. Or are there other technical reasons?

However, it should work to call this function from multiple threads with different/independent `sys_stdin` / `sys_stdout`.

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messages: 143229
nosy: Albert.Zeyer
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: PyOS_Readline uses single lock
versions: Python 2.7

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