cpython/Lib/test/test_threaded_import.py
Jack Jansen 87797872a8 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.
2001-08-29 20:26:24 +00:00

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# This is a variant of the very old (early 90's) file
# Demo/threads/bug.py. It simply provokes a number of threads into
# trying to import the same module "at the same time".
# There are no pleasant failure modes -- most likely is that Python
# complains several times about module random having no attribute
# randrange, and then Python hangs.
import thread
from test_support import verbose, TestSkipped
critical_section = thread.allocate_lock()
done = thread.allocate_lock()
def task():
global N, critical_section, done
import random
x = random.randrange(1, 3)
critical_section.acquire()
N -= 1
if N == 0:
done.release()
critical_section.release()
# Tricky: When regrtest imports this module, the thread running regrtest
# grabs the import lock and won't let go of it until this module returns.
# All other threads attempting an import hang for the duration. Since
# this test spawns threads that do little *but* import, we can't do that
# successfully until after this module finishes importing and regrtest
# regains control. To make this work, a special case was added to
# regrtest to invoke a module's "test_main" function (if any) after
# importing it.
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:
print "Trying", N, "threads ...",
for i in range(N):
thread.start_new_thread(task, ())
done.acquire()
if verbose:
print "OK."
if __name__ == "__main__":
test_main()