Issue2564: Prevent a hang in "import test.autotest", which runs the entire test

suite as a side-effect of importing the module.

- in test_capi, a thread tried to import other modules
- re.compile() imported sre_parse again on every call.

2 files changed, 3 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/sre_compile.py b/Lib/sre_compile.py
index 22ab2fd..65d2ccf 100644
--- a/Lib/sre_compile.py
+++ b/Lib/sre_compile.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 """Internal support module for sre"""
 
 import _sre, sys
-
+import sre_parse
 from sre_constants import *
 
 assert _sre.MAGIC == MAGIC, "SRE module mismatch"
@@ -502,7 +502,6 @@ def compile(p, flags=0):
     # internal: convert pattern list to internal format
 
     if isstring(p):
-        import sre_parse
         pattern = p
         p = sre_parse.parse(p, flags)
     else:
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_capi.py b/Lib/test/test_capi.py
index cdd84bb..eea41c1 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_capi.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_capi.py
@@ -19,9 +19,6 @@ def test_main():
 
     # some extra thread-state tests driven via _testcapi
     def TestThreadState():
-        import thread
-        import time
-
         if test_support.verbose:
             print "auto-thread-state"
 
@@ -45,6 +42,8 @@ def test_main():
         have_thread_state = False
 
     if have_thread_state:
+        import thread
+        import time
         TestThreadState()
         import threading
         t=threading.Thread(target=TestThreadState)