What happened?
The code below, in a no-gil debug build with PYTHON_GIL=0, results in the following abort:
python: ./Include/internal/pycore_stackref.h:99: _PyStackRef_FromPyObjectSteal: Assertion `obj != NULL' failed.
Aborted
from threading import Thread from collections import ChainMap, Counter counter = Counter(range(100)) chainmap = ChainMap(counter) chainmap2 = ChainMap(counter) def mutate_removing(): for x in range(10): chainmap.pop(list(chainmap.keys()).pop()) chainmap2.pop(list(chainmap2.keys()).pop()) def mutate_adding(): for x in range(50): chainmap[max(chainmap) + x + 1] = x chainmap2[max(chainmap2) + x + 1] = x alive = [] for x in range(55): alive.append(Thread(target=mutate_removing, args=())) alive.append(Thread(target=mutate_adding, args=())) for obj in alive: try: print('START', obj) obj.start() except Exception: pass
Found using fusil by @vstinner.
CPython versions tested on:
CPython main branch
Operating systems tested on:
Linux
Output from running 'python -VV' on the command line:
Python 3.14.0a1+ experimental free-threading build (heads/main:556dc9b8a7, Nov 3 2024, 10:09:47) [GCC 11.4.0]