[TIP] problems w/ coverage and threads?

[Ned Batchelder]

  Thanks, but I just did: 
http://bitbucket.org/ned/coveragepy/issue/85/threadrun-isnt-measured

--Ned.

On 8/25/2010 12:36 AM, Dirk Pranke wrote:
> Hi Ned,
>
> Thanks for the response. I've verified that if I pull the code into a
> function called by run(), it works for me as well, which gives me a
> pretty good workaround in the meantime.
>
> Would it be helpful for me to file this as a bug?
>
> -- Dirk
>
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 7:43 PM, Ned Batchelder<ned at nedbatchelder.com>  wrote:
>>   Hi Dirk,
>>
>> Indeed I can reproduce this.  I don't understand why yet, but the run()
>> method is not recorded by the trace function, but functions it calls are.
>>   Odd.  I'll work more on it..
>>
>> --Ned.
>>
>> On 8/24/2010 2:36 PM, Dirk Pranke wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'm running the following program under coverage on a Mac Pro running
>>> Snow Loepard (using "coverage run threads_unittest.py", python 2.5,
>>> coverage 3.3.1) and getting no coverage numbers from the
>>> TestThread.run()
>>> method. Also, if I try to mark it ignored with "# pragma: no cover",
>>> that seems to have no effect.
>>>
>>> I would have thought that both of these things would work. Any ideas?
>>>
>>> -- Dirk
>>>
>>> % cat threads_unittest.py
>>>
>>> import Queue
>>> import threading
>>> import unittest
>>>
>>> class TestThread(threading.Thread):
>>>      def __init__(self, started_queue, stopping_queue):
>>>          threading.Thread.__init__(self)
>>>          self._started_queue = started_queue
>>>          self._stopping_queue = stopping_queue
>>>
>>>      def run(self):
>>>          print "starting thread"
>>>          self._started_queue.put('')
>>>          msg = self._stopping_queue.get()
>>>          print "exiting thread"
>>>
>>> class ThreadTest(unittest.TestCase):
>>>      def test_threads(self):
>>>          starting_queue = Queue.Queue()
>>>          stopping_queue = Queue.Queue()
>>>          thd = TestThread(starting_queue, stopping_queue)
>>>          stopping_queue.put('')
>>>          thd.start()
>>>          starting_queue.get()
>>>          thd.join()
>>>          self.assertTrue(True)
>>>
>>> if __name__ == '__main__':
>>>      unittest.main()
>>> %
>>>
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