Method _print_thread_safe

shell_helpers.py:46–56

Python sucks: a naive print adds a bunch of random spaces to stdout, and then copy pasting the command fails. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3029816/how-do-i-get-a-thread-safe-print-in-python-2-6 The initial use case was test-gdb which must create a thread for G

(cls, string)

    @classmethod
    def _print_thread_safe(cls, string):
        '''
        Python sucks: a naive print adds a bunch of random spaces to stdout,
        and then copy pasting the command fails.
        https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3029816/how-do-i-get-a-thread-safe-print-in-python-2-6
        The initial use case was test-gdb which must create a thread for GDB to run the program in parallel.
        '''
        cls._print_lock.acquire()
        sys.stdout.write(string + '\n')
        sys.stdout.flush()
        cls._print_lock.release()

    def add_newlines(self, cmd):
        out = []