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authorBrett Cannon <bcannon@gmail.com>2009-04-01 16:06:01 (GMT)
committerBrett Cannon <bcannon@gmail.com>2009-04-01 16:06:01 (GMT)
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Merged revisions 70956 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r70956 | brett.cannon | 2009-04-01 09:00:34 -0700 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009) | 5 lines The cgitb module had imports in its functions. This can cause deadlock with the import lock if called from within a thread that was triggered by an import. Partially fixes issue #1665206. ........
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Library
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+- Issue #1665206 (partially): Move imports in cgitb to the top of the module
+ instead of performing them in functions. Helps prevent import deadlocking in
+ threads.
+
- Issue #2522: locale.format now checks its first argument to ensure it has
been passed only one pattern, avoiding mysterious errors where it appeared
that it was failing to do localization.