spawning threads within test cases in django test framework

I've got a django app with a periodically scheduled background task that updates the database. I've written a bunch of tests for its principal class that are run as part of the django unit test framework. I want to convert the class to do its work using multiple threads, but I'm having trouble

Re: spawning threads within test cases in django test framework

On 31 May 2011 22:01, Brian wrote: > I've got a django app with a periodically scheduled background task that > updates the database. I've written a bunch of tests for its principal class > that are run as part of the django unit test framework. I want to convert > the class to do its work using m

Re: spawning threads within test cases in django test framework

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 02:01:00PM -0700, Brian wrote: > I've got a django app with a periodically scheduled background task that > updates the database. I've written a bunch of tests for its principal class > that are run as part of the django unit test framework. I want to convert > the class

Re: spawning threads within test cases in django test framework

Thanks for the replies. I realised that I could reorganise the code so that all the database updating was done in the main thread. Re TransactionTestCases, I knew I'd read something related to that but didn't find it when I went looking yesterday evening; it sounds like that would have worked i