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Author chris.jerdonek
Recipients brett.cannon, chris.jerdonek, ezio.melotti, zach.ware
Date 2013-01-26.17:22:48
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Okay, I think I understand the issue better now.  The threading._dangling warning happens because when leaving the saved_test_environment context manager in regrtest:

http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/fcdb35b114ab/Lib/test/regrtest.py#l1271

the context manager finds threads still in threading._dangling that weren't there at the beginning.  I think the threads are still in there because the "tests" variable in the code linked to above is holding references to those threads (which isn't surprising given what test_concurrent_futures.py tests).  So this is preventing the threads (which are in a WeakSet) from being garbage collected.

On my machine, severing those references before leaving the context manager solves the problem.  You can do this by adding "test = 0" after the test_runner() line, or defining "tests" inside an inner function as follows:

if test_runner is None:
    def test_runner():
        tests = unittest.TestLoader().loadTestsFromModule(the_module)
        support.run_unittest(tests)
test_runner()

To be completely sure, we may also need to do something to ensure that the threads are garbage collected before leaving the context manager.  Currently, an explicit call to support.gc_collect() happens in threading_cleanup() (which is in turn called by reap_threads(), etc):

http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/fcdb35b114ab/Lib/test/support.py#l1665

But I'm not sure if that's late enough in the process to guarantee garbage collection of those threads with the test_runner() change above (since the tests list might still be defined).
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