[Python-Dev] Can someone look at dummy_thread (#622537)?

[Guido van Rossum]

> > I don't propose to automate this.  I propose this:
> >
> >   try:
> >     import threading
> >   except ImportError:
> >     import dummy_threading as threading
> >
> 
> So is this an indirect request for me to write ``dumy_threading``?  If it
> is it won't be hard: I would do an ``import *`` on ``threading`` and then
> override the functions it uses from ``thread`` with ``import ... from ...
> as ...`` from ``dummy_thread``.  Also would mean rewriting the
> ``threading`` testing suite.  Prefectly happy to write it, just need you
> to say you want it.

Yes.  I don't want threading to automatically substitute dummy_thread
for thread.  Multiple imports of threading must all fail when thread
cannot be imported.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)