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authorChris Markiewicz <effigies@gmail.com>2024-02-24 00:02:16 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2024-02-24 00:02:16 (GMT)
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gh-114763: Protect lazy loading modules from attribute access races (GH-114781)
Setting the __class__ attribute of a lazy-loading module to ModuleType enables other threads to attempt to access attributes before the loading is complete. Now that is protected by a lock.
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+Protect modules loaded with :class:`importlib.util.LazyLoader` from race
+conditions when multiple threads try to access attributes before the loading
+is complete.