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Author vstinner
Recipients amaury.forgeotdarc, brett.cannon, henrietta, pitrou, vstinner
Date 2011-01-20.13:30:03
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> If the import lock is changed to raise an exception, 
> heaps of multi-threaded software will be broken.

You are right. It has done so for 12 years already (10011), so it's a bit late to do anything about it. And backward compatibility is very important, so I close this issue.
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2011-01-20 13:30:04vstinnersetrecipients: + vstinner, brett.cannon, amaury.forgeotdarc, pitrou, henrietta
2011-01-20 13:30:04vstinnersetmessageid: <1295530204.55.0.882947664757.issue10923@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2011-01-20 13:30:03vstinnerlinkissue10923 messages
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