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[Python-Dev] should tests be thread-safe?

Charles-François Natali cf.natali at gmail.com
Sun May 11 00:43:26 CEST 2014 
> You might have forgotten to include Python-dev in the reply.

Indeed, adding it back!

> Thank you for the reply. I might have expressed the question poorely. I
> meant: I have a script that I know is not thread-safe but it doesn't matter
> because the test itself doesn't run any threads and the current tests are
> never(?) run in multiple threads (-j uses processes). Should this *new* test
> be fixed if e.g., there is a desire to be able to run (at least some) tests
> in multiple threads concurrently in the future?

The short answer is: no, you don't have to make you thread thread
safe, as long as it can reliably run even in the presence of
background threads (like the tkinter threads Victor mentions).
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