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[$] Deterministic testing for multithreaded Python

Python's support for multithreaded programs has improved considerably over the last few years with the advent of the "free-threaded" version of the language . But testing multithreaded programs is notoriously difficult, because the underlying host system determines the thread-execution ordering, which adds an element of non-determinism. At PyCon US, Larry Hastings gave a talk ( YouTube video )…

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