Merge pull request #637 from ged-lab/fix/do-partition-threading

Fix type of threading arg in do-paritioning

ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2014-10-24  Camille Scott  <camille.scott.w@gmail.com>
+
+    * do-partition.py: Add type=int to n_threads arg and assert to check
+    number of active threads
+
 2014-10-06  Michael R. Crusoe  <mcrusoe@msu.edu>
 
     * Doxyfile.in: add links to the stdc++ docs

scripts/do-partition.py

@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ def get_parser():
     parser.add_argument('--no-big-traverse', dest='no_big_traverse',
                         action='store_true', default=False,
                         help='Truncate graph joins at big traversals')
-    parser.add_argument('--threads', '-T', dest='n_threads',
+    parser.add_argument('--threads', '-T', dest='n_threads', type=int,
                         default=DEFAULT_N_THREADS,
                         help='Number of simultaneous threads to execute')
     parser.add_argument('--keep-subsets', dest='remove_subsets',
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ def main():  # pylint: disable=too-many-locals,too-many-statements
         threads.append(cur_thread)
         cur_thread.start()
 
+    assert threading.active_count() == args.n_threads+1
+
     print 'done starting threads'
 
     # wait for threads