On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 2:39 PM, Martin Panter <vadmium...@gmail.com> wrote: > As I understand, @reap_threads basically does a join() on each > background thread, with a total timeout of 1 s. So since your test is > unlikely to fail between starting threads and joining them, I don’t > think you need to use @reap_threads.
reap_threads is meant as a failsafe, in case your test case doesn't clean up after itself properly. Most of the time, reap_threads shouldn't actually *do* anything. -- Zach _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
