import inside of a Python thread

Question

I have some functions that interactively load python modules using __import__

I recently stumbled upon some article about an \"import lock\" in Python,

Answer 1

I could not find an answer in official documentation on this but it appears that in some versions of CPython 3.x, __import__ calls are not thread-safe, and can cause a deadlock. See: https://bugs.python.org/issue38884.