Early in the PEP 451 implementation some of the importlib loaders had
their own _get_spec() methods to simplify accommodating them. However,
later implementations removed the need. They simply failed to remove
this code at the same time. :)
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.
the function did nothing if the key already exists (if the current value is a
non-NULL pointer).
_testcapi.run_in_subinterp() now correctly sets the new Python thread state of
the current thread when a subinterpreter is created.
crash when a generator is created in a C thread that is destroyed while the
generator is still used. The issue was that a generator contains a frame, and
the frame kept a reference to the Python state of the destroyed C thread. The
crash occurs when a trace function is setup.
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.
module loaders.
Due to the fact that the call signatures for extension modules and
built-in modules does not allow for the specifying of what module to
initialize and that on Windows all extension modules are built-in
modules, work to clean up built-in and extension module initialization
will have to wait until Python 3.5. Because of this the semantics of
exec_module() would be incorrect, so removing the methods for now is
the best option; load_module() is still used as a fallback by
importlib and so this won't affect semantics.
