The Heisenbug lurking in your async code (Python)

• CPython

  1,322 60,139 10.0 Python

  The Python programming language

  

There's a GitHub issue to fix this, arguing that the doc fixes are insufficient, consider it to be a design mistake, and argue that it can be changed without breaking backwards compatibility (current GC behavior is not deterministic): https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/91887

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• node

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Yes, it's visible on goroutine profile, provided by built-in profiler pprof. E.g.: https://github.com/mysteriumnetwork/node/issues/5311#issueco...

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• trio

  19 5,928 9.4 Python

  Trio – a friendly Python library for async concurrency and I/O

  

I'll +1 the Trio shoutout [1], but it's worth emphasizing that the core concept of Trio (nurseries) now exists in the stdlib in the form of task groups [2]. The article mentions this very briefly, but it's easy to miss, and I wouldn't describe it as a solution to this bug, anyways. Rather, it's more of a different way of writing multitasking code, which happens to make this class of bug impossible.

[1] https://github.com/python-trio/trio

[2] https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-task.html#task-gro...

• DistorteD

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I experienced a heisenbug exactly like this in Ruby when trying to `while case Ractor::receive`: https://github.com/okeeblow/DistorteD/blob/dd2a99285072982d3...

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