Thread safety issue with MagickMock str: sometimes returns MagickMock instead of str

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#70,787 opened on Mar 21, 2016 6 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Difficulty: 4/5
Estimated time: 3-5 days
Newbie friendliness: 20/100

Issue type: Bug
Clarity: Needs clarification
Activity status: Stale
Tech stack: python
Domain: testing-qa

Research direction

No source file or test is named; start by locating MagickMock.str and reviewing linked PR gh-120094. Done means the behavior is consistent under threaded use and the relevant regression coverage passes.

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Description

stdlib type-bug

BPO	26600
Nosy	@pitrou, @voidspace, @skonieczny, @iritkatriel

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assignee = None
closed_at = None
created_at = <Date 2016-03-21.08:13:06.783>
labels = ['type-bug', 'library']
title = 'Thread safety issue with MagickMock __str__: sometimes returns MagickMock instead of str'
updated_at = <Date 2021-02-22.10:51:03.663>
user = 'https://github.com/skonieczny'

bugs.python.org fields:

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actor = 'iritkatriel'
assignee = 'none'
closed = False
closed_date = None
closer = None
components = ['Library (Lib)']
creation = <Date 2016-03-21.08:13:06.783>
creator = 'uosiu'
dependencies = []
files = []
hgrepos = []
issue_num = 26600
keywords = []
message_count = 6.0
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nosy_count = 5.0
nosy_names = ['pitrou', 'michael.foord', 'uosiu', 'Yoichi Nakayama', 'iritkatriel']
pr_nums = []
priority = 'normal'
resolution = None
stage = 'resolved'
status = 'open'
superseder = None
type = 'behavior'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue26600'
versions = ['Python 2.7', 'Python 3.5', 'Python 3.6']

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