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r75958 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-10-30 18:07:08 +0100 (ven., 30 oct. 2009) | 7 lines
Issue #7222: Make thread "reaping" more reliable so that reference
leak-chasing test runs give sensible results. The previous method of
reaping threads could return successfully while some Thread objects were
still referenced. This also introduces a new private function:
:func:hread._count().
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_thread.py b/Lib/test/test_thread.py
index 73d87b8..c25668d 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_thread.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_thread.py
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
from test import support
import _thread as thread
import time
+import weakref
NUMTASKS = 10
@@ -99,6 +100,32 @@
thread.stack_size(0)
+ def test__count(self):
+ # Test the _count() function.
+ orig = thread._count()
+ mut = thread.allocate_lock()
+ mut.acquire()
+ started = []
+ def task():
+ started.append(None)
+ mut.acquire()
+ mut.release()
+ thread.start_new_thread(task, ())
+ while not started:
+ time.sleep(0.01)
+ self.assertEquals(thread._count(), orig + 1)
+ # Allow the task to finish.
+ mut.release()
+ # The only reliable way to be sure that the thread ended from the
+ # interpreter's point of view is to wait for the function object to be
+ # destroyed.
+ done = []
+ wr = weakref.ref(task, lambda _: done.append(None))
+ del task
+ while not done:
+ time.sleep(0.01)
+ self.assertEquals(thread._count(), orig)
+
class Barrier:
def __init__(self, num_threads):