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Deadlocks

Let's look into the scenarios when deadlocks occur.

Pitfalls of the concurrent.futures module

One of the pitfalls of the concurrent.futures module is that you can accidentally create deadlocks when the caller to associate with a Future is also waiting on the results of another future.

This sounds kind of confusing, so let’s look at an example:

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from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor
def wait_forever():
    """
    This function will wait forever if there's only one
    thread assigned to the pool
    """
    my_future = executor.submit(zip, [1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6])
    result = my_future.result()
    print(result)
if __name__ == '__main__':
    executor = ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=1)
    executor.submit(wait_forever)

Here we import the ThreadPoolExecutor class ...