The CPython runtime assumes that there is a one-to-one relationship (for a given interpreter) between PyThreadState and OS threads. Sending and receiving on a channel in the same interpreter was causing crashes because of this (specifically due to a check in PyThreadState_Swap()). The solution is to not switch threads if the interpreter is the same.
(cherry picked from commit f53d9f27)
Co-authored-by: Eric Snow <ericsnowcurrently@gmail.com>