Use re-entrant lock.

prometheus_client/metrics.py

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import os
-from threading import Lock
+from threading import RLock
 import time
 import types
 from typing import (
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ def __init__(self: T,
 
         if self._is_parent():
             # Prepare the fields needed for child metrics.
-            self._lock = Lock()
+            self._lock = RLock()
             self._metrics: Dict[Sequence[str], T] = {}
 
         if self._is_observable():
@@ -697,7 +697,7 @@ class Info(MetricWrapperBase):
 
     def _metric_init(self):
         self._labelname_set = set(self._labelnames)
-        self._lock = Lock()
+        self._lock = RLock()
         self._value = {}
 
     def info(self, val: Dict[str, str]) -> None:
@@ -757,7 +757,7 @@ def __init__(self,
 
     def _metric_init(self) -> None:
         self._value = 0
-        self._lock = Lock()
+        self._lock = RLock()
 
     def state(self, state: str) -> None:
         """Set enum metric state."""

prometheus_client/registry.py

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 from abc import ABC, abstractmethod
 import copy
-from threading import Lock
+from threading import RLock
 from typing import Dict, Iterable, List, Optional
 
 from .metrics_core import Metric
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ def __init__(self, auto_describe: bool = False, target_info: Optional[Dict[str,
         self._collector_to_names: Dict[Collector, List[str]] = {}
         self._names_to_collectors: Dict[str, Collector] = {}
         self._auto_describe = auto_describe
-        self._lock = Lock()
+        self._lock = RLock()
         self._target_info: Optional[Dict[str, str]] = {}
         self.set_target_info(target_info)
 

prometheus_client/values.py

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ class MutexValue:
     def __init__(self, typ, metric_name, name, labelnames, labelvalues, help_text, **kwargs):
         self._value = 0.0
         self._exemplar = None
-        self._lock = Lock()
+        self._lock = RLock()
 
     def inc(self, amount):
         with self._lock:
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ def MultiProcessValue(process_identifier=os.getpid):
     # Use a single global lock when in multi-processing mode
     # as we presume this means there is no threading going on.
     # This avoids the need to also have mutexes in __MmapDict.
-    lock = Lock()
+    lock = RLock()
 
     class MmapedValue:
         """A float protected by a mutex backed by a per-process mmaped file."""