Known limitations of the current implementation:
- documentation changes are incomplete
- there's a reference leak I haven't tracked down yet
The leak is most visible by running:
./python -m test -R3:3 test_importlib
However, you can also see it by running:
./python -X showrefcount
Importing the array or _testmultiphase modules, and
then deleting them from both sys.modules and the local
namespace shows significant increases in the total
number of active references each cycle. By contrast,
with _testcapi (which continues to use single-phase
initialisation) the global refcounts stabilise after
a couple of cycles.
In Python 3.3, PyThread_set_key_value() did nothing if the key already exists
(if the current value is a non-NULL pointer).
When _PyGILState_NoteThreadState() is called twice on the same thread with a
different Python thread state, it still keeps the old Python thread state to
keep the old behaviour. Replacing the Python thread state with the new state
introduces new bugs: see issues #10915 and #15751.
has no concrete GIL. If PyGILState_Ensure() is called from a new thread for the
first time and PyEval_InitThreads() was not called yet, a GIL needs to be
created.
* Replace malloc() with PyMem_RawMalloc()
* Replace PyMem_Malloc() with PyMem_RawMalloc() where the GIL is not held.
* _Py_char2wchar() now returns a buffer allocated by PyMem_RawMalloc(), instead
of PyMem_Malloc()
tstate is first removed from TLS and then deallocated.
CID 1019639 (#1 of 1): Use after free (USE_AFTER_FREE)
use_after_free: Using freed pointer tstate.
Note that this is a potentially disruptive change since it may
release some system resources which would otherwise remain
perpetually alive (e.g. database connections kept in thread-local
storage).
sporadic crashes in multi-thread programs when several long deallocator
chains ran concurrently and involved subclasses of built-in container
types.
Because of this change, a couple extension modules compiled for 2.7.4
(those which use the trashcan mechanism, despite it being undocumented)
will not be loadable by 2.7.3 and earlier. However, extension modules
compiled for 2.7.3 and earlier will be loadable by 2.7.4.
sporadic crashes in multi-thread programs when several long deallocator
chains ran concurrently and involved subclasses of built-in container
types.
Because of this change, a couple extension modules compiled for 3.2.4
(those which use the trashcan mechanism, despite it being undocumented)
will not be loadable by 3.2.3 and earlier. However, extension modules
compiled for 3.2.3 and earlier will be loadable by 3.2.4.
sporadic crashes in multi-thread programs when several long deallocator
chains ran concurrently and involved subclasses of built-in container
types.
Because of this change, a couple extension modules compiled for 3.2.4
(those which use the trashcan mechanism, despite it being undocumented)
will not be loadable by 3.2.3 and earlier. However, extension modules
compiled for 3.2.3 and earlier will be loadable by 3.2.4.
importlib._bootstrap is now frozen into Python/importlib.h and stored
as _frozen_importlib in sys.modules. Py_Initialize() loads the frozen
code along with sys and imp and then uses _frozen_importlib._install()
to set builtins.__import__() w/ _frozen_importlib.__import__().
TLS key only if the thread that called fork() had an associated auto thread
state (this might not be the case for example for a thread created outside of
Python calling into a subinterpreter).
TLS implementations, and fails with the ad-hoc TLS implementation when a thread
doesn't have an auto thread state (e.g. a thread created outside of Python
calling into a subinterpreter).
subinterpreter to fix a bootstrap issue with codecs implemented in Python, as
the ISO-8859-15 codec.
Add fscodec_initialized attribute to the PyInterpreterState structure.
subinterpreter to fix a bootstrap issue with codecs implemented in Python, as
the ISO-8859-15 codec.
Add fscodec_initialized attribute to the PyInterpreterState structure.
Yury Selivanov
Nick Coghlan
Steve Dower
Serhiy Storchaka
Benjamin Peterson
Victor Stinner
Antoine Pitrou
Christian Heimes
Charles-Francois Natali
Kristján Valur Jónsson
Martin v. Löwis
Brett Cannon
Charles-François Natali
Victor Stinner
Ezio Melotti
Kristján Valur Jónsson