Fix deadlock in test with free threading#5973
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Importing "widget_module" re-enables the GIL. In current versions of CPython, this requires pausing all threads attached to all interpreters. The spinning on sync/num without a py::gil_scoped_release causes occasional deadlocks.
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Importing "widget_module" re-enables the GIL. In current versions of CPython, this requires pausing all threads attached to all interpreters. The spinning on sync/num without a py::gil_scoped_release causes occasional deadlocks.