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On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 12:30 PM, Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org> wrote:
> I've instrumented one of my unit tests with a conditional
> 'pdb.set_trace' in some circumstances (specifically, when a function is
> called by a thread other than MainThread).

I think the likelihood of this being an issue with interactive
debugging and threads is sufficiently high that you should avoid
putting the two together, at least until you can verify that the same
problem occurs without that combination.

ChrisA