gh-104341: Call _PyEval_ReleaseLock() with NULL When Finalizing the Current Thread by ericsnowcurrently · Pull Request #105109 · python/cpython

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This avoids the problematic race in drop_gil() by skipping the FORCE_SWITCHING code there for finalizing threads.

(The idea for this approach came out of discussions with @markshannon.)
(cherry picked from commit 3698fda)

Co-authored-by: Eric Snow <ericsnowcurrently@gmail.com>

…g the Current Thread (gh-105109) (gh-105209)

This avoids the problematic race in drop_gil() by skipping the FORCE_SWITCHING code there for finalizing threads.

(The idea for this approach came out of discussions with @markshannon.)
(cherry picked from commit 3698fda)

Co-authored-by: Eric Snow ericsnowcurrently@gmail.com