""" Expose a race in the _warnings module, which is the C backend for the warnings module. The "_warnings" module tries to access attributes of the "warnings" module (because of the API it has to support), but doing so during interpreter shutdown is problematic. Specifically, the call to PyImport_GetModuleDict() in Python/_warnings.c:get_warnings_attr will abort() if the modules dict has already been cleaned up. This crasher is timing-dependent, and more threads (NUM_THREADS) may be necessary to expose it reliably on different systems. """ import threading import warnings NUM_THREADS = 10 class WarnOnDel(object): def __del__(self): warnings.warn("oh no something went wrong", UserWarning) def do_work(): while True: w = WarnOnDel() for i in range(NUM_THREADS): t = threading.Thread(target=do_work) t.setDaemon(1) t.start()