import unittest from doctest import DocTestSuite from test import support import threading import weakref import gc class Weak(object): pass def target(local, weaklist): weak = Weak() local.weak = weak weaklist.append(weakref.ref(weak)) class ThreadingLocalTest(unittest.TestCase): def test_local_refs(self): self._local_refs(20) self._local_refs(50) self._local_refs(100) def _local_refs(self, n): local = threading.local() weaklist = [] for i in range(n): t = threading.Thread(target=target, args=(local, weaklist)) t.start() t.join() del t gc.collect() self.assertEqual(len(weaklist), n) # XXX threading.local keeps the local of the last stopped thread alive. deadlist = [weak for weak in weaklist if weak() is None] self.assertEqual(len(deadlist), n-1) # Assignment to the same thread local frees it sometimes (!) local.someothervar = None gc.collect() deadlist = [weak for weak in weaklist if weak() is None] self.assertTrue(len(deadlist) in (n-1, n), (n, len(deadlist))) def test_derived(self): # Issue 3088: if there is a threads switch inside the __init__ # of a threading.local derived class, the per-thread dictionary # is created but not correctly set on the object. # The first member set may be bogus. import time class Local(threading.local): def __init__(self): time.sleep(0.01) local = Local() def f(i): local.x = i # Simply check that the variable is correctly set self.assertEqual(local.x, i) threads= [] for i in range(10): t = threading.Thread(target=f, args=(i,)) t.start() threads.append(t) for t in threads: t.join() def test_main(): suite = unittest.TestSuite() suite.addTest(DocTestSuite('_threading_local')) suite.addTest(unittest.makeSuite(ThreadingLocalTest)) try: from thread import _local except ImportError: pass else: import _threading_local local_orig = _threading_local.local def setUp(test): _threading_local.local = _local def tearDown(test): _threading_local.local = local_orig suite.addTest(DocTestSuite('_threading_local', setUp=setUp, tearDown=tearDown) ) support.run_unittest(suite) if __name__ == '__main__': test_main()