Module to test threads
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+# Very rudimentary test of thread module
+
+# Create a bunch of threads, let each do some work, wait until all are done
+
+import whrandom
+import thread
+import time
+
+mutex = thread.allocate_lock()
+running = 0
+done = thread.allocate_lock()
+done.acquire()
+
+def task(ident):
+ global running
+ delay = whrandom.random() * 10
+ print 'task', ident, 'will run for', delay, 'sec'
+ time.sleep(delay)
+ print 'task', ident, 'done'
+ mutex.acquire()
+ running = running - 1
+ if running == 0:
+ done.release()
+ mutex.release()
+
+next_ident = 0
+def newtask():
+ global next_ident, running
+ mutex.acquire()
+ next_ident = next_ident + 1
+ print 'creating task', next_ident
+ thread.start_new_thread(task, (next_ident,))
+ running = running + 1
+ mutex.release()
+
+for i in range(10):
+ newtask()
+
+print 'waiting for all tasks to complete'
+done.acquire()
+print 'all tasks done'