# Very rudimentary test of threading module import test.test_support from test.test_support import verbose import random import threading import thread import time import unittest # A trivial mutable counter. class Counter(object): def __init__(self): self.value = 0 def inc(self): self.value += 1 def dec(self): self.value -= 1 def get(self): return self.value class TestThread(threading.Thread): def __init__(self, name, testcase, sema, mutex, nrunning): threading.Thread.__init__(self, name=name) self.testcase = testcase self.sema = sema self.mutex = mutex self.nrunning = nrunning def run(self): delay = random.random() * 2 if verbose: print 'task', self.getName(), 'will run for', delay, 'sec' self.sema.acquire() self.mutex.acquire() self.nrunning.inc() if verbose: print self.nrunning.get(), 'tasks are running' self.testcase.assert_(self.nrunning.get() <= 3) self.mutex.release() time.sleep(delay) if verbose: print 'task', self.getName(), 'done' self.mutex.acquire() self.nrunning.dec() self.testcase.assert_(self.nrunning.get() >= 0) if verbose: print self.getName(), 'is finished.', self.nrunning.get(), \ 'tasks are running' self.mutex.release() self.sema.release() class ThreadTests(unittest.TestCase): # Create a bunch of threads, let each do some work, wait until all are # done. def test_various_ops(self): # This takes about n/3 seconds to run (about n/3 clumps of tasks, # times about 1 second per clump). NUMTASKS = 10 # no more than 3 of the 10 can run at once sema = threading.BoundedSemaphore(value=3) mutex = threading.RLock() numrunning = Counter() threads = [] for i in range(NUMTASKS): t = TestThread(""%i, self, sema, mutex, numrunning) threads.append(t) t.start() if verbose: print 'waiting for all tasks to complete' for t in threads: t.join(NUMTASKS) self.assert_(not t.isAlive()) if verbose: print 'all tasks done' self.assertEqual(numrunning.get(), 0) # run with a small(ish) thread stack size (256kB) def test_various_ops_small_stack(self): if verbose: print 'with 256kB thread stack size...' try: threading.stack_size(262144) except thread.error: if verbose: print 'platform does not support changing thread stack size' return self.test_various_ops() threading.stack_size(0) # run with a large thread stack size (1MB) def test_various_ops_large_stack(self): if verbose: print 'with 1MB thread stack size...' try: threading.stack_size(0x100000) except thread.error: if verbose: print 'platform does not support changing thread stack size' return self.test_various_ops() threading.stack_size(0) def test_foreign_thread(self): # Check that a "foreign" thread can use the threading module. def f(mutex): # Acquiring an RLock forces an entry for the foreign # thread to get made in the threading._active map. r = threading.RLock() r.acquire() r.release() mutex.release() mutex = threading.Lock() mutex.acquire() tid = thread.start_new_thread(f, (mutex,)) # Wait for the thread to finish. mutex.acquire() self.assert_(tid in threading._active) self.assert_(isinstance(threading._active[tid], threading._DummyThread)) del threading._active[tid] # PyThreadState_SetAsyncExc() is a CPython-only gimmick, not (currently) # exposed at the Python level. This test relies on ctypes to get at it. def test_PyThreadState_SetAsyncExc(self): try: import ctypes except ImportError: if verbose: print "test_PyThreadState_SetAsyncExc can't import ctypes" return # can't do anything set_async_exc = ctypes.pythonapi.PyThreadState_SetAsyncExc class AsyncExc(Exception): pass exception = ctypes.py_object(AsyncExc) # `worker_started` is set by the thread when it's inside a try/except # block waiting to catch the asynchronously set AsyncExc exception. # `worker_saw_exception` is set by the thread upon catching that # exception. worker_started = threading.Event() worker_saw_exception = threading.Event() class Worker(threading.Thread): def run(self): self.id = thread.get_ident() self.finished = False try: while True: worker_started.set() time.sleep(0.1) except AsyncExc: self.finished = True worker_saw_exception.set() t = Worker() t.setDaemon(True) # so if this fails, we don't hang Python at shutdown t.start() if verbose: print " started worker thread" # Try a thread id that doesn't make sense. if verbose: print " trying nonsensical thread id" result = set_async_exc(ctypes.c_long(-1), exception) self.assertEqual(result, 0) # no thread states modified # Now raise an exception in the worker thread. if verbose: print " waiting for worker thread to get started" worker_started.wait() if verbose: print " verifying worker hasn't exited" self.assert_(not t.finished) if verbose: print " attempting to raise asynch exception in worker" result = set_async_exc(ctypes.c_long(t.id), exception) self.assertEqual(result, 1) # one thread state modified if verbose: print " waiting for worker to say it caught the exception" worker_saw_exception.wait(timeout=10) self.assert_(t.finished) if verbose: print " all OK -- joining worker" if t.finished: t.join() # else the thread is still running, and we have no way to kill it def test_main(): test.test_support.run_unittest(ThreadTests) if __name__ == "__main__": test_main()