# test concurrent mutating access to a shared user instance # # MIT license; Copyright (c) 2016 Damien P. George on behalf of Pycom Ltd import _thread # the shared user class and instance class User: def __init__(self): self.a = 'A' self.b = 'B' self.c = 'C' user = User() # main thread function def th(n, lo, hi): for repeat in range(n): for i in range(lo, hi): setattr(user, 'attr_%u' % i, repeat + i) assert getattr(user, 'attr_%u' % i) == repeat + i with lock: global n_finished n_finished += 1 lock = _thread.allocate_lock() n_repeat = 30 n_range = 300 n_thread = 4 n_finished = 0 # spawn threads for i in range(n_thread): _thread.start_new_thread(th, (n_repeat, i * n_range, (i + 1) * n_range)) # busy wait for threads to finish while n_finished < n_thread: pass # check user instance has correct contents print(user.a, user.b, user.c) for i in range(n_thread * n_range): assert getattr(user, 'attr_%u' % i) == n_repeat - 1 + i