From 6943d8ef275a5b4a687a730287d9421e2fae3fae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Miss Islington (bot)" <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2025 18:40:11 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] [3.14] gh-126548: Add a thread-unsafety warning for `importlib.reload()` (GH-136704) (GH-136723) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit gh-126548: Add a thread-unsafety warning for `importlib.reload()` (GH-136704) (cherry picked from commit 69d8fe50ddc4dbe757c9929a532e2e882f0261ba) Co-authored-by: Bartosz Sławecki --- Doc/library/importlib.rst | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/Doc/library/importlib.rst b/Doc/library/importlib.rst index ea5a77028683..4f374be778d6 100644 --- a/Doc/library/importlib.rst +++ b/Doc/library/importlib.rst @@ -206,6 +206,10 @@ Functions :exc:`ModuleNotFoundError` is raised when the module being reloaded lacks a :class:`~importlib.machinery.ModuleSpec`. + .. warning:: + This function is not thread-safe. Calling it from multiple threads can result + in unexpected behavior. It's recommended to use the :class:`threading.Lock` + or other synchronization primitives for thread-safe module reloading. :mod:`importlib.abc` -- Abstract base classes related to import --------------------------------------------------------------- -- 2.47.3