[IronPython] IronPython and Threads

[Dino Viehland]

If you use the thread module we will wrap the newly created thread in a try/except for you and print to std-out when the unhandled exception occurs.  That way we match the CPython behavior but you can get the standard .NET behavior if you want by going to System.Threading.  Unfortunately printing to std out isn't too useful in Silverlight but we could also look at having that display in Silverlight somehow too.

From: users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com [mailto:users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com] On Behalf Of Curt Hagenlocher
Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2008 10:04 AM
To: Discussion of IronPython
Subject: Re: [IronPython] IronPython and Threads

Under CLR 2, any uncaught exception in a thread other than the primary thread will take down the entire process.  This is not specific to IronPython.  I don't know what the Silverlight CLR will do under these circumstances.

You could make a case that a Python-initiated thread shouldn't terminate the process given that CPython wouldn't do the same, but as far as I know, we haven't gotten any requests along those lines.  For now, you'll probably want to wrap any function used as a thread "main" in a try/except and do something to log the error in the exception handler.
On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 8:23 AM, Dan Eloff <dan.eloff at gmail.com<mailto:dan.eloff at gmail.com>> wrote:
I'm having a problem debugging some issues that I suspect are thread
related in Silverlight. My application is failing silently, so I have
no way to be sure yet. Is it possible that exceptions in a background
thread are quietly swallowed? I'm pretty sure my callback is being
called, but all that is in it right now is a raise statement.

I've enabled debug.
<param name="initParams" value="debug=true,reportErrors=errorLocation" />

I've been trying to explore Threads a little more with IronPython to
see what might be the problem, but even there I'm not having much
luck. I could swear this used to work in Beta 1. Now it crashes the
interpreter.

IronPython 2.0 Beta (2.0.0.2000) on .NET 2.0.50727.1433
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
>>> from System.Threading import Thread, ThreadStart
>>> def foo():
...     raise ValueError
...
>>> t = Thread(ThreadStart(foo))
>>> t.Start()
>>>
Unhandled Exception: System.ArgumentException
  at foo$1##16(Closure )
  at _stub_##25(Closure , CallSite , CodeContext , Object )
  at Microsoft.Scripting.Utils.InvokeHelper`5.Invoke(Object arg0,
Object arg1, Object arg2, Object arg3)
  at Microsoft.Scripting.Utils.ReflectedCaller.InvokeInstance(Object
instance, Object[] args)
  at Microsoft.Scripting.Actions.ActionBinder.UpdateSiteAndExecute[T](CodeContext
context, CallSite`1 site, Object[] args)
  at Microsoft.Scripting.Actions.UpdateDelegates.Update1[T0,TRet](CallSite
site, CodeContext context, T0 arg0)
  at System.Void(), using PythonBinder##20(Closure )
  at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext
executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
  at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart()

What's going wrong? How should I be doing this?

Thanks,
-Dan
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