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by glandium 2569 days ago
No, even libraries without. Picking something random in the python 3.7 standard library: collections.OrderedDict.__setitem__ doesn't look thread-safe when it updates its linked list. EDIT: well, in fact, the data race in that one is there whether there is a GIL or not...
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Just FYI, there are few remaining use cases for OrderedDict, now that built-in dict keeps insertion order.