remove python test cases

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 75 deletions

diff --git a/sys/lib/python/test/test_threaded_import.py b/sys/lib/python/test/test_threaded_import.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 602ad2af9..000000000
--- a/sys/lib/python/test/test_threaded_import.py
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@@ -1,75 +0,0 @@
-# This is a variant of the very old (early 90's) file
-# Demo/threads/bug.py.  It simply provokes a number of threads into
-# trying to import the same module "at the same time".
-# There are no pleasant failure modes -- most likely is that Python
-# complains several times about module random having no attribute
-# randrange, and then Python hangs.
-
-import thread
-from test.test_support import verbose, TestSkipped, TestFailed
-
-critical_section = thread.allocate_lock()
-done = thread.allocate_lock()
-
-def task():
-    global N, critical_section, done
-    import random
-    x = random.randrange(1, 3)
-    critical_section.acquire()
-    N -= 1
-    # Must release critical_section before releasing done, else the main
-    # thread can exit and set critical_section to None as part of global
-    # teardown; then critical_section.release() raises AttributeError.
-    finished = N == 0
-    critical_section.release()
-    if finished:
-        done.release()
-
-def test_import_hangers():
-    import sys
-    if verbose:
-        print "testing import hangers ...",
-
-    import test.threaded_import_hangers
-    try:
-        if test.threaded_import_hangers.errors:
-            raise TestFailed(test.threaded_import_hangers.errors)
-        elif verbose:
-            print "OK."
-    finally:
-        # In case this test is run again, make sure the helper module
-        # gets loaded from scratch again.
-        del sys.modules['test.threaded_import_hangers']
-
-# Tricky:  When regrtest imports this module, the thread running regrtest
-# grabs the import lock and won't let go of it until this module returns.
-# All other threads attempting an import hang for the duration.  Since
-# this test spawns threads that do little *but* import, we can't do that
-# successfully until after this module finishes importing and regrtest
-# regains control.  To make this work, a special case was added to
-# regrtest to invoke a module's "test_main" function (if any) after
-# importing it.
-
-def test_main():        # magic name!  see above
-    global N, done
-
-    import imp
-    if imp.lock_held():
-        # This triggers on, e.g., from test import autotest.
-        raise TestSkipped("can't run when import lock is held")
-
-    done.acquire()
-    for N in (20, 50) * 3:
-        if verbose:
-            print "Trying", N, "threads ...",
-        for i in range(N):
-            thread.start_new_thread(task, ())
-        done.acquire()
-        if verbose:
-            print "OK."
-    done.release()
-
-    test_import_hangers()
-
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-    test_main()