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authorXiang Zhang <angwerzx@126.com>2017-03-29 03:58:54 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2017-03-29 03:58:54 (GMT)
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bpo-28699: fix abnormal behaviour of pools in multiprocessing.pool (GH-693)
an exception raised at the very first of an iterable would cause pools behave abnormally (swallow the exception or hang)
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+- bpo-28699: Fixed a bug in pools in multiprocessing.pool that raising an
+ exception at the very first of an iterable may swallow the exception or
+ make the program hang. Patch by Davin Potts and Xiang Zhang.
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- bpo-23890: unittest.TestCase.assertRaises() now manually breaks a reference
cycle to not keep objects alive longer than expected.