[issue14205] Raise an error if a dict is modified during a lookup

[Mark Shannon]

Mark Shannon <mark at hotpy.org> added the comment:

Jim Jewett wrote:
> Jim Jewett <jimjjewett at gmail.com> added the comment:
> 
> Can't this be triggered by non-malicious code that just happened to have a python comparison and get hit with a thread switch?

So, they are writing to a dict in one thread while reading from the same
dict in another thread, without any external locks and with keys written
in Python.
> 
> I'm not sure how often it happens, but today it would not be visible to the user; after the patch, users will see a sporadic failure that they can't easily defend against.
> 
I suspect, they are already seeing sporadic failures.
I think raising an exception is better than weird failures.

We should document the new behaviour, as it is a change in semantics.

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