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Author pitrou
Recipients belopolsky, brett.cannon, christian.heimes, grahamd, gvanrossum, ncoghlan, pitrou
Date 2010-07-14.21:47:29
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> So changing the locking mechanism most likely won't break loaders
> because they are not using the current import lock anyway and so
> already have their own issues.

Are you sure they aren't using it implicitly? 
In vanilla py3k, PyImport_ImportModuleLevel() takes the import lock
therefore it protects any inner code, including the various hooks.
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2010-07-14 21:47:31pitrousetrecipients: + pitrou, gvanrossum, brett.cannon, ncoghlan, belopolsky, christian.heimes, grahamd
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