STINNER Victor <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com> added the comment: > Great! I didn't know that!
It's a new feature of Python 3.3. I added it to skip a test on old FreeBDB, see test_threadsignal.py: ------------------------ USING_PTHREAD_COND = (sys.thread_info.name == 'pthread' and sys.thread_info.lock == 'mutex+cond') ... @unittest.skipIf(USING_PTHREAD_COND, 'POSIX condition variables cannot be interrupted') def test_lock_acquire_interruption(self): ------------------------ It is also used in test_os.py: --------------- if hasattr(sys, 'thread_info') and sys.thread_info.version: USING_LINUXTHREADS = sys.thread_info.version.startswith("linuxthreads") else: USING_LINUXTHREADS = False --------------- This "linux threads" check does already exist in Python 3.2, but is uses: --------------- libpthread = os.confstr("CS_GNU_LIBPTHREAD_VERSION") USING_LINUXTHREADS= libpthread.startswith("linuxthreads") --------------- See also the doc: http://docs.python.org/dev/library/sys.html#sys.thread_info ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12868> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com