# 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 imp import sys import unittest from test.support import verbose, TestFailed, import_module, run_unittest thread = import_module('_thread') def task(N, done, done_tasks, errors): try: import random # This will fail if random is not completely initialized x = random.randrange(1, 3) except Exception as e: errors.append(e.with_traceback(None)) finally: done_tasks.append(thread.get_ident()) finished = len(done_tasks) == N if finished: done.release() class ThreadedImportTests(unittest.TestCase): def setUp(self): self.old_random = sys.modules.pop('random', None) def tearDown(self): # If the `random` module was already initialized, we restore the # old module at the end so that pickling tests don't fail. # See http://bugs.python.org/issue3657#msg110461 if self.old_random is not None: sys.modules['random'] = self.old_random def test_parallel_module_init(self): if imp.lock_held(): # This triggers on, e.g., from test import autotest. raise unittest.SkipTest("can't run when import lock is held") done = thread.allocate_lock() done.acquire() for N in (20, 50) * 3: if verbose: print("Trying", N, "threads ...", end=' ') # Make sure that random gets reimported freshly try: del sys.modules['random'] except KeyError: pass errors = [] done_tasks = [] for i in range(N): thread.start_new_thread(task, (N, done, done_tasks, errors,)) done.acquire() self.assertFalse(errors) if verbose: print("OK.") done.release() def test_import_hangers(self): # In case this test is run again, make sure the helper module # gets loaded from scratch again. try: del sys.modules['test.threaded_import_hangers'] except KeyError: pass import test.threaded_import_hangers self.assertFalse(test.threaded_import_hangers.errors) def test_main(): run_unittest(ThreadedImportTests) if __name__ == "__main__": test_main()