"Proces-wide" vs "thread-safe" is one thing. Another interesting property is "reentrant", but maybe that's too wide?

Somehow related, iterating on a container and modify it may or may not work depending on the container type and the kind of modifications.

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> bpo-8865: select.poll is not thread safe

I checked select documentation, it doesn't mention "thread" anywhere :-(

https://docs.python.org/dev/library/select.html#poll-objects