Workaround by Tim Peters to skip this test if run from test.autotest,
in which case it will hang because the import lock is already held
by the main thread.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_threaded_import.py b/Lib/test/test_threaded_import.py
index fafb873..1e1c553 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_threaded_import.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_threaded_import.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
# randrange, and then Python hangs.
import thread
-from test_support import verbose
+from test_support import verbose, TestSkipped
critical_section = thread.allocate_lock()
done = thread.allocate_lock()
@@ -32,6 +32,10 @@
def test_main(): # magic name! see above
global N, done
+ import sys
+ for modname in sys.modules:
+ if modname.find('autotest') >= 0:
+ raise TestSkipped("can't run from autotest")
done.acquire()
for N in (20, 50) * 3:
if verbose: