run-tests: call Threads constructor with keyword arguments
This is suggested in the python documentation
(on http://docs.python.org/2/library/threading.html#thread-objects)
[ original upstream message ]
import sys
globalvars = {}
localvars = {}
lines = sys.stdin.readlines()
while lines:
l = lines.pop(0)
if l.startswith('SALT'):
print l[:-1]
elif l.startswith('>>> '):
snippet = l[4:]
while lines and lines[0].startswith('... '):
l = lines.pop(0)
snippet += "\n" + l[4:]
c = compile(snippet, '<heredoc>', 'single')
try:
exec c in globalvars, localvars
except Exception, inst:
print repr(inst)