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Author glglgl
Recipients glglgl
Date 2011-03-29.20:08:04
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Message-id <1301429285.55.0.524593153571.issue11714@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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The acquire() and release() functions of threading.Semaphore do not make use of the try...finally suite as it would be reasonable.
They just do 

    def acquire(self, blocking=1):
        rc = False
        self.__cond.acquire()
        [...]
        self.__cond.release()
        return rc

    [...]

    def release(self):
        self.__cond.acquire()
        [...]
        self.__cond.release()

while IMO it would be appropriate to put a try: after the acquire() calls and a finally: before the release() calls so the lock is not held forever if an exception occurs.

(Feel free to use with self.__cond: instead...)

Especially when Ctrl-C is pressed while acquire() waits, the respective KeyboardInterrupt gets thrown after acquire(), breaking the respective function and the __cond is locked forever because it is never release()d.
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