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Sun Jan 22 15:51:49 EST 2017 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2017-January/147218.html

On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 2:39 PM, Martin Panter <vadmium+py at gmail.com> wrote:
> As I understand, @reap_threads basically does a join() on each
> background thread, with a total timeout of 1 s. So since your test is
> unlikely to fail between starting threads and joining them, I don’t
> think you need to use @reap_threads.

reap_threads is meant as a failsafe, in case your test case doesn't
clean up after itself properly.  Most of the time, reap_threads
shouldn't actually *do* anything.

-- 
Zach

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[Python-Dev] adding threaded tests to the test suite