# test concurrent mutating access to a shared set object # # MIT license; Copyright (c) 2016 Damien P. George on behalf of Pycom Ltd import _thread # the shared set se = set([-1, -2, -3, -4]) # main thread function def th(n, lo, hi): for repeat in range(n): for i in range(lo, hi): se.add(i) assert i in se se.remove(i) assert i not in se with lock: global n_finished n_finished += 1 lock = _thread.allocate_lock() n_thread = 4 n_finished = 0 # spawn threads for i in range(n_thread): _thread.start_new_thread(th, (50, i * 500, (i + 1) * 500)) # busy wait for threads to finish while n_finished < n_thread: pass # check set has correct contents print(sorted(se))