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| author | Eric Snow <ericsnowcurrently@gmail.com> | 2023-12-07 20:22:15 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2023-12-07 20:22:15 (GMT) |
| commit | 64d8b4c7099a6097a7f7340c575679c5622fcd5c (patch) | |
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gh-112826: Add a "What's New" Entry About _thread._is_main_interpreter (gh-112853)
As of gh-112661, the threading module expects the _thread module to have a _is_main_interpreter(), which is used in the internal threading._shutdown(). This change causes a problem for anyone that replaces the _thread module with a custom one (only if they don't provide _is_main_interpreter()). They need to be sure to add it for 3.13+, thus this PR is adding a note in "What's New".
This also forward-ports the "What's New" entry from 3.12 (gh-112850). Note that we do not also forward-port the fix in that PR. The fix is there only due to a regression from 3.12.0. There is no regression in 3.13+.
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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/whatsnew/3.13.rst | 10 |
2 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst index 07d22a4..8551b35 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst @@ -1895,6 +1895,15 @@ Changes in the Python API * Mixing tabs and spaces as indentation in the same file is not supported anymore and will raise a :exc:`TabError`. +* The :mod:`threading` module now expects the :mod:`!_thread` module to have + an ``_is_main_interpreter`` attribute. It is a function with no + arguments that returns ``True`` if the current interpreter is the + main interpreter. + + Any library or application that provides a custom ``_thread`` module + should provide ``_is_main_interpreter()``. + (See :gh:`112826`.) + Build Changes ============= diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.13.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.13.rst index 9adf7a3..4401deb 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.13.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.13.rst @@ -1082,6 +1082,16 @@ Changes in the Python API retrieve a username, instead of :exc:`ImportError` on non-Unix platforms or :exc:`KeyError` on Unix platforms where the password database is empty. +* The :mod:`threading` module now expects the :mod:`!_thread` module to have + an ``_is_main_interpreter`` attribute. It is a function with no + arguments that returns ``True`` if the current interpreter is the + main interpreter. + + Any library or application that provides a custom ``_thread`` module + must provide ``_is_main_interpreter()``, just like the module's + other "private" attributes. + (See :gh:`112826`.) + Build Changes ============= |