On 22.01.2017 13:54, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
> I think the answer is that you were lucky. ;)
> The problem can be reproduced by running:
> $ python -m pytest -v -x -rs testing/test_gateway.py
>
> I did that 100 times and it failed 78 times, working only 22 times.
>
> The failing test contains:
> for i in range(10):
> status = gw.remote_status()
> if status.numexecuting == 0:
> break
> else:
> pytest.fail("did not get correct remote status")
>
> Apparently there is a race condition, so it is tried 10 times.
> However, it is tried in a tight loop, thus not much time passes
> between the first and the last try. Making it sleep inside the
> loop helps.
>
> There is a similar construct in test_status_with_threads,
> which fails in a similar way, but after changing both to wait
> a bit (with attached patch), the test succeeded 100 times
> for 100 tries.
Hi Andreas,
... that looks very good, ♪thank you♪ very much!
Daniel
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