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I think that this problem is not FreeBSD specific:
- "import test.autotest" runs the whole test suite as a side-effect of
an import statement.
- in the test suite test_capi spawns threads, which also import.
- a lock ensues...
See for example test_threaded_import.py::
 if imp.lock_held():
 # This triggers on, e.g., from test import autotest.
 raise TestSkipped("can't run when import lock is held")
I the test_capi case, I think that the two imports in TestThreadState
should be moved outside the function.
Also, the backtrace file shows two other threads locked in a "import
socket" statement. I suspect problems in test_urllib2.py or
test_urllib2net.py...