changeset:   92503:4baa474b4f31
branch:      2.7
parent:      92500:f75f446dba92
user:        Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>
date:        Sun Sep 21 22:08:00 2014 +0300
files:       Lib/test/test_threading.py Lib/threading.py Misc/NEWS
description:
Issue #22423: Unhandled exception in thread no longer causes unhandled
AttributeError when sys.stderr is None.


diff -r f75f446dba92 -r 4baa474b4f31 Lib/test/test_threading.py
--- a/Lib/test/test_threading.py	Sun Sep 21 00:42:40 2014 +0200
+++ b/Lib/test/test_threading.py	Sun Sep 21 22:08:00 2014 +0300
@@ -829,6 +829,85 @@
         thread.start()
         self.assertRaises(RuntimeError, setattr, thread, "daemon", True)
 
+    def test_print_exception(self):
+        script = r"""if 1:
+            import threading
+            import time
+
+            running = False
+            def run():
+                global running
+                running = True
+                while running:
+                    time.sleep(0.01)
+                1/0
+            t = threading.Thread(target=run)
+            t.start()
+            while not running:
+                time.sleep(0.01)
+            running = False
+            t.join()
+            """
+        rc, out, err = assert_python_ok("-c", script)
+        self.assertEqual(out, '')
+        self.assertIn("Exception in thread", err)
+        self.assertIn("Traceback (most recent call last):", err)
+        self.assertIn("ZeroDivisionError", err)
+        self.assertNotIn("Unhandled exception", err)
+
+    def test_print_exception_stderr_is_none_1(self):
+        script = r"""if 1:
+            import sys
+            import threading
+            import time
+
+            running = False
+            def run():
+                global running
+                running = True
+                while running:
+                    time.sleep(0.01)
+                1/0
+            t = threading.Thread(target=run)
+            t.start()
+            while not running:
+                time.sleep(0.01)
+            sys.stderr = None
+            running = False
+            t.join()
+            """
+        rc, out, err = assert_python_ok("-c", script)
+        self.assertEqual(out, '')
+        self.assertIn("Exception in thread", err)
+        self.assertIn("Traceback (most recent call last):", err)
+        self.assertIn("ZeroDivisionError", err)
+        self.assertNotIn("Unhandled exception", err)
+
+    def test_print_exception_stderr_is_none_2(self):
+        script = r"""if 1:
+            import sys
+            import threading
+            import time
+
+            running = False
+            def run():
+                global running
+                running = True
+                while running:
+                    time.sleep(0.01)
+                1/0
+            sys.stderr = None
+            t = threading.Thread(target=run)
+            t.start()
+            while not running:
+                time.sleep(0.01)
+            running = False
+            t.join()
+            """
+        rc, out, err = assert_python_ok("-c", script)
+        self.assertEqual(out, '')
+        self.assertNotIn("Unhandled exception", err)
+
 
 class LockTests(lock_tests.LockTests):
     locktype = staticmethod(threading.Lock)
diff -r f75f446dba92 -r 4baa474b4f31 Lib/threading.py
--- a/Lib/threading.py	Sun Sep 21 00:42:40 2014 +0200
+++ b/Lib/threading.py	Sun Sep 21 22:08:00 2014 +0300
@@ -818,10 +818,10 @@
                 # shutdown) use self.__stderr.  Otherwise still use sys (as in
                 # _sys) in case sys.stderr was redefined since the creation of
                 # self.
-                if _sys:
-                    _sys.stderr.write("Exception in thread %s:\n%s\n" %
-                                      (self.name, _format_exc()))
-                else:
+                if _sys and _sys.stderr is not None:
+                    print>>_sys.stderr, ("Exception in thread %s:\n%s" %
+                                         (self.name, _format_exc()))
+                elif self.__stderr is not None:
                     # Do the best job possible w/o a huge amt. of code to
                     # approximate a traceback (code ideas from
                     # Lib/traceback.py)
diff -r f75f446dba92 -r 4baa474b4f31 Misc/NEWS
--- a/Misc/NEWS	Sun Sep 21 00:42:40 2014 +0200
+++ b/Misc/NEWS	Sun Sep 21 22:08:00 2014 +0300
@@ -21,6 +21,10 @@
 
 Library
 -------
+
+- Issue #22423: Unhandled exception in thread no longer causes unhandled
+  AttributeError when sys.stderr is None.
+
 - Issue #22419: Limit the length of incoming HTTP request in wsgiref server to
   65536 bytes and send a 414 error code for higher lengths. Patch contributed
   by Devin Cook.