[py-dev] Gitting rid of "(inconsistently failed then succeeded)" ?

[Philippe Fremy]

Hi,

I am getting "(inconsistently failed then succeeded)" which are quite
annoying. It's for code that checks conditions maniuplated by threads:

        t = threading.Thread( target=checker.start, args=(elcConfig,
result)  )
        t.start()

        time.sleep( 0.1 )

        checker.stop( False )

        if not t.isAlive(): assert False

        if checker.isFinished(): assert False



        checker.join()

>       if t.isAlive(): assert False

E       AssertionError: (inconsistently failed then succeeded)


I am playing a bit with race conditions here, but should that be a
reason for my test to fail ? The conditions that I am checking arrive in
the right order, only py.test is complaining.

Any way I can get rid of "(inconsistently failed then succeeded)" ?

cheers,

Philippe