Article 785Y1 [$] Deterministic testing for multithreaded Python

[$] Deterministic testing for multithreaded Python

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jake
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Python's support for multithreaded programs has improved considerably overthe last few years with the advent of the "free-threaded" version of the language. Buttesting multithreaded programs is notoriously difficult, because theunderlying host system determines the thread-execution ordering, which addsan element of non-determinism. At PyCon US, Larry Hastings gave a talk (YouTube video)about his blanket project,which is meant to provide mechanisms for deterministic testing ofmultithreaded Python code.
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