#!/usr/bin/python
"""Repro case; trying to distill this "bug" down to the essentials."""

import thread
import threading
import time

# These values may be OS- and System-dependent

# These values are correct on my Windows XP box
#NUM_THREADS_OK = 1000
#NUM_THREADS_FOR_FAIL = 1100

# These values are correct on my OS X box.
NUM_THREADS_OK = 2400
NUM_THREADS_FOR_FAIL = 2600

def do_work():
    """Let's just wait 10 seconds."""
    time.sleep(10)

def create_threads(num_threads):
    for index in range(num_threads):
        athread = threading.Thread(target=do_work)
        try:
            athread.start()
        except thread.error:
            print('Failed to create a thread')
            print('A thread will be stuck in "initial" state because of this.')

    while threading.activeCount() > 1:
        # Uncomment following line to see the types ("initial," "started,"
        # etc.) of threads.
        #print('Thread list: %s' % threading.enumerate())
        print('There are %s active threads; waiting for them to end' %
              threading.activeCount())
        time.sleep(2)

    print('Everything ended successfully. The world is a happy place.')


if __name__ == "__main__":
    create_threads(NUM_THREADS_OK)
    create_threads(NUM_THREADS_FOR_FAIL)