New submission from Antoine Pitrou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
As discovered in #3139, io.BufferedWriter mutates the size of its
internal bytearray object. Consequently, invocations of write() from
multiple threads can produce exceptions when one thread gets a buffer to
the bytearray while the other thread tries to resize it. This especially
affects calling print() from multiple threads.
A solution is to use a fixed-size (preallocated) bytearray object.
Another solution is to get rid of the bytearray approach and replace it
with a growing list of immutable bytes objects.
Here is the test script provided by Amaury:
import sys, io, threading
stdout2 = io.open(sys.stdout.fileno(), mode="w")
def f(i):
for i in range(10):
stdout2.write(unicode((x, i)) + '\n')
for x in range(10):
t = threading.Thread(target=f, args=(x,))
t.start()
(with py3k, replace "stdout2.write" with a simple "print")
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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 70494
nosy: amaury.forgeotdarc, pitrou
priority: high
severity: normal
status: open
title: BufferedWriter not thread-safe
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.6, Python 3.0
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<http://bugs.python.org/issue3476>
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