# test concurrent mutating access to a shared list object # # MIT license; Copyright (c) 2016 Damien P. George on behalf of Pycom Ltd import _thread # the shared list li = list() # main thread function def th(n, lo, hi): for repeat in range(n): for i in range(lo, hi): li.append(i) assert li.count(i) == repeat + 1 li.extend([i, i]) assert li.count(i) == repeat + 3 li.remove(i) assert li.count(i) == repeat + 2 li.remove(i) assert li.count(i) == repeat + 1 with lock: global n_finished n_finished += 1 lock = _thread.allocate_lock() n_thread = 4 n_finished = 0 # spawn threads for i in range(n_thread): _thread.start_new_thread(th, (4, i * 60, (i + 1) * 60)) # busy wait for threads to finish while n_finished < n_thread: pass # check list has correct contents li.sort() print(li)