Issue #23799: Added test.support.start_threads() for running and cleaning up

multiple threads.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_capi.py b/Lib/test/test_capi.py
index fbd1466c78..dff717b5e0 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_capi.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_capi.py
@@ -284,15 +284,11 @@ class TestPendingCalls(unittest.TestCase):
         context.lock = threading.Lock()
         context.event = threading.Event()
 
-        for i in range(context.nThreads):
-            t = threading.Thread(target=self.pendingcalls_thread, args = (context,))
-            t.start()
-            threads.append(t)
-
-        self.pendingcalls_wait(context.l, n, context)
-
-        for t in threads:
-            t.join()
+        threads = [threading.Thread(target=self.pendingcalls_thread,
+                                    args=(context,))
+                   for i in range(context.nThreads)]
+        with support.start_threads(threads):
+            self.pendingcalls_wait(context.l, n, context)
 
     def pendingcalls_thread(self, context):
         try: