rather than in docstrings. Rewrote so that _active_limbo_lock is released
no matter what happens (it could have been left locked if _sys got None'd
out). Use "in" in preference to has_key() for dict lookup. Don't bother
looking for 'dummy_threading' in sys.modules unless KeyError is raised.
Since the heart of the method is the del, do that in only one place.
and Thread.__delete() was called after a Thread instance was created. Problem
resulted from a currentThread() call in an 'assert' statement being optimized
out and dummy_thread.get_ident() always returning -1 and thus overwriting the
entry for the _MainThread() instance created in 'threading' at import time.
Closes bug #993394.
during interpreter shutdown instead of masking it with another traceback about
accessing a NoneType when trying to print the exception out in the first place.
Closes bug #754449 (using patch #954922).
Side-effects were deemed unnecessary and were causing problems at shutdown
time when threads were catching exceptions at start time and then triggering
exceptions trying to call currentThread() after gc'ed. Masked the initial
exception which was deemed bad.
Fixes bug #754449 .
interrupted. A try/finally will do nicely. Maybe other classes need
this too, but since they manipulate more state it's less clear that
that is always the right thing, and I'm in a hurry.
Backport candidate.
