import sys, time, threading, thread, os, traceback, threadframe, pprint # daemon thread that spouts Monty Pythonesque nonsense class T(threading.Thread): def run(self): while 1: time.sleep(1) print '[%d] Spam spam spam spam. Lovely spam! Wonderful spam!' % ( thread.get_ident(), ) # thread that cause a deliberate deadlock with itself U_lock = threading.Lock() class U(threading.Thread): def run(self): U_lock.acquire() U_lock.acquire() # thread that will exit after the thread frames are extracted but before # they are printed V_event = threading.Event() class V(threading.Thread): def run(self): V_event.clear() V_event.wait() print 'ident of main thread is: %d' % (thread.get_ident(),) print print 'launching daemon thread...', T().start() print 'done' print 'launching self-deadlocking thread...', U().start() print 'done' print 'launching thread that will die before the end...', v = V() v.start() print 'done' time.sleep(5) # Python 2.2 does not support threadframe.dict() if sys.hexversion < 0x02030000: frames = threadframe.threadframe() else: frames = threadframe.dict() # signal the thread V to die, then wait for it to oblige V_event.set() v.join() if sys.hexversion < 0x02030000: for frame in frames: print '-' * 72 print 'frame ref count = %d' % sys.getrefcount(frame) traceback.print_stack(frame) else: for thread_id, frame in frames.iteritems(): print '-' * 72 print '[%s] %d' % (thread_id, sys.getrefcount(frame)) traceback.print_stack(frame) os._exit(0)