Re: unittest and threading

2012-01-25 Thread Mark Hammond
Let me have a guess :) On 25/01/2012 7:42 PM, Ross Boylan wrote: On Tue, 2012-01-24 at 13:54 -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: ... The code I want to test uses threads, but that is not entirely internal from the standpoint of the unit test framework. The unit test will be executing in one thread, but

Re: unittest and threading

2012-01-25 Thread Ross Boylan
On Tue, 2012-01-24 at 13:54 -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > Is it safe to use unittest with threads? > > In particular, if a unit test fails in some thread other than the one > that launched the test, will that information be captured properly? > > A search of the net shows a suggestion that all fail

Re: unittest and threading

2012-01-24 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:54:23 -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > Is it safe to use unittest with threads? I see nobody else has answered, so I'll have a go. I think you need to explain what you mean here in a little more detail. If you mean, "I have a library that uses threads internally, and I want t

unittest and threading

2012-01-24 Thread Ross Boylan
Is it safe to use unittest with threads? In particular, if a unit test fails in some thread other than the one that launched the test, will that information be captured properly? A search of the net shows a suggestion that all failures must be reported in the main thread, but I couldn't find anyt