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cpython/Lib/dummy_thread.py
2003-01-29 03:49:43 +00:00

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"""Drop-in replacement for the thread module.
Meant to be used as a brain-dead substitute so that threaded code does
not need to be rewritten for when the thread module is not present.
Suggested usage is::
try:
import thread
except ImportError:
import dummy_thread as thread
"""
__author__ = "Brett Cannon"
__email__ = "brett@python.org"
# Exports only things specified by thread documentation
# (skipping obsolete synonyms allocate(), start_new(), exit_thread())
__all__ = ['error', 'start_new_thread', 'exit', 'get_ident', 'allocate_lock',
'LockType']
import traceback as _traceback
class error(Exception):
"""Dummy implementation of thread.error."""
def __init__(self, *args):
self.args = args
def start_new_thread(function, args, kwargs={}):
"""Dummy implementation of thread.start_new_thread().
Compatibility is maintained by making sure that ``args`` is a
tuple and ``kwargs`` is a dictionary. If an exception is raised
and it is SystemExit (which can be done by thread.exit()) it is
caught and nothing is done; all other exceptions are printed out
by using traceback.print_exc().
"""
if type(args) != type(tuple()):
raise TypeError("2nd arg must be a tuple")
if type(kwargs) != type(dict()):
raise TypeError("3rd arg must be a dict")
try:
function(*args, **kwargs)
except SystemExit:
pass
except:
_traceback.print_exc()
def exit():
"""Dummy implementation of thread.exit()."""
raise SystemExit
def get_ident():
"""Dummy implementation of thread.get_ident().
Since this module should only be used when threadmodule is not
available, it is safe to assume that the current process is the
only thread. Thus a constant can be safely returned.
"""
return -1
def allocate_lock():
"""Dummy implementation of thread.allocate_lock()."""
return LockType()
class LockType(object):
"""Class implementing dummy implementation of thread.LockType.
Compatibility is maintained by maintaining self.locked_status
which is a boolean that stores the state of the lock. Pickling of
the lock, though, should not be done since if the thread module is
then used with an unpickled ``lock()`` from here problems could
occur from this class not having atomic methods.
"""
def __init__(self):
self.locked_status = False
def acquire(self, waitflag=None):
"""Dummy implementation of acquire().
For blocking calls, self.locked_status is automatically set to
True and returned appropriately based on value of
``waitflag``. If it is non-blocking, then the value is
actually checked and not set if it is already acquired. This
is all done so that threading.Condition's assert statements
aren't triggered and throw a little fit.
"""
if waitflag is None:
self.locked_status = True
return None
elif not waitflag:
if not self.locked_status:
self.locked_status = True
return True
else:
return False
else:
self.locked_status = True
return True
def release(self):
"""Release the dummy lock."""
# XXX Perhaps shouldn't actually bother to test? Could lead
# to problems for complex, threaded code.
if not self.locked_status:
raise error
self.locked_status = False
return True
def locked(self):
return self.locked_status