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Switch to a new thread-safe utility for catching warnings. - #25626
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FYI: python/cpython#128300 : Add thread-safe context manager to "warnings" module This is going to take some time to get fixed in CPython but it might be a good idea to make a similar API so that you can switch back to the CPython version in the future, assuming it gets fixed properly. If you have any feedback on my PR, I would be happy to hear about it. My main concerns were to not break existing non-threaded non-async code that is happily using |
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Thanks! I'm excited to see that this is being fixed properly upstream. Given I just added a fallback path for non-threaded cases that calls the upstream utilities, it shouldn't be a big lift to switch back to the upstream utilities for the threaded cases also when a thread-safe alternative exists. I'd assume that your improved warnings will not land until Python 3.14, correct? |
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The Python warnings.catch_warnings() functionality is not thread-safe (https://py-free-threading.github.io/porting/#the-warnings-module-is-not-thread-safe), so we cannot use it during tests that use free-threading. This change introduces a private warnings test helper (test_warning_util.py), which hooks the CPython warning infrastructure and uses it to implement thread-safe warnings infrastructure. This requires a handful of small modifications to tests to remove direct uses of the warnings module. We also sadly have to delete one TPU test that checks for a warning raised on another thread; there's no easy way for us to catch that in a thread-safe way, but that test seems like overkill anyway.
…ing a library's words One `organize` over the format corpus put 866 lines on the user's stderr. It now puts 2 - the progress line - and the report states what was removed and why. ⚠ THE ENTRY HAD THE SUBJECT BACKWARDS, AND THAT IS THE FINDING. Measured on the same corpus: 478 image files got no near-duplicate check and only 71 of them warned, while 14 warned and decoded perfectly well. The 131 warnings are a lossy 15% proxy for a gap the product never mentioned at all. Reporting them would have named 71 of 478 and implied the rest were fine; suppressing them alone would have made Truestill quieter about a real gap - §4's forty-second member, a check measuring the cheaper proxy. So what a person is told is derived from the decode OUTCOME, never from whether a library spoke. The fact was already in the data and nobody asked the question, which is (aer)'s shape again. `FileHashes.perceptual_computed` exists because "perceptual=None answers two different questions - not an image and nobody looked". That settled two of three; the third - an image a pass tried to decode and could not - was derivable since the field shipped and read by nothing. ⚠ `warnings.catch_warnings` IS DELETED, NOT WIDENED. It assigns process-global module attributes and scan.py hashes on a ThreadPoolExecutor by default, which CPython documents as undefined behaviour with two or more threads - so the old one-class suppression was unsound on the common path and widening it would have widened the race. The upstream fix is out of reach: gh-128384 filed it, the ContextVar implementation gh-130010 is "Changed in version 3.14", and it "defaults to 1 on free-threaded builds and to 0 otherwise". This project runs 3.13. JAX hit the same wall (jax-ml/jax#25626) and hooks the warning infrastructure; decode_noise does the same - one write per process, at a phase boundary, never while workers are in flight. ⚠ SCOPED TO THE EXTERNAL LIBRARY, BOTH DEFENCES PINNED SEPARATELY. We do not silence our own signals. The filter matches module=PIL\..* and the hook swallows only when the raising file sits under a PIL directory. Proved by a warning raised from inside truestill_core.hashing during a real hashing pass, beside a file that makes Pillow warn on the same pass: ours reaches the terminal with our own path, Pillow's does not. fd 2 IS PROCESS-WIDE AND THE FIX SAYS SO RATHER THAN PRETENDING. libtiff and libjpeg write there directly; under a worker pool several decodes are in flight and the lines name no file, so per-file attribution is impossible and was not attempted. They are counted at phase level and discarded - safe for one measured reason: grep for the source path over a whole 866-line run returns 0. Progress survives because _progress_printer writes through the sys.stderr object while C writes to the descriptor; the object is repointed only when it is actually backed by fd 2. Installed in two places because there are two: the parent call carries the default thread pool, `initializer=` carries ProcessPoolExecutor children. The child test is forced onto spawn, because Linux's fork makes the child inherit everything and the initializer changes nothing - the first version passed with it deleted. macOS and Windows are spawn, and both are CI lanes. The action is "always" and that is load-bearing: warn_explicit consults __warningregistry__ before dispatching, so the default drops repeats - 197 raised, 133 printed. The run now reports 189. (aew): the unreadable block printed "fix the permission or check the disk" under all five reasons, and 8 of 8 files named under it on this corpus were UNDECODABLE, where neither is at fault - under a heading that contradicted its own rows. models.unreadable_remedy beside unreadable_label, the list grouped by reason, and the heading now names the consequence. Thirteen mutations, three survived first: a >= against a cumulative counter that leftovers satisfied; nothing guarding the fd-2 restore, whose test must be a subprocess because pytest has already replaced fd 2; and the filter's scope, defended only by the hook's filename check. Verified on both pools: thread and process report an identical 787 = 189 + 598. Closes (aev). Closes (aew).
The Python warnings.catch_warnings() functionality is not thread-safe (https://py-free-threading.github.io/porting/#the-warnings-module-is-not-thread-safe), so we cannot use it during tests that use free-threading. This change introduces a private warnings test helper (test_warning_util.py), which hooks the CPython warning infrastructure and uses it to implement thread-safe warnings infrastructure.
This requires a handful of small modifications to tests to remove direct uses of the warnings module. We also sadly have to delete one TPU test that checks for a warning raised on another thread; there's no easy way for us to catch that in a thread-safe way, but that test seems like overkill anyway.