Hi
I am fairly new to Python threading and my needs are simple(!)
I want to establish a number of threads each of which work on the same computationally intensive problem in different ways.
I am using the thread module rather than the threading module.
My problem is I can't see how (when one thread completes) to ensure that the other threads terminate immediately.
Appreciate some simple advice
Phil
With Python's threads, you have to handle this kindd a feature yourself. For example, you can create a single object containing a boolean set to False by default. When one of your algorithm finishes, the boolean is set to True. All your algorithm should regularly test this boolean and exit if it is True ! Note that the boolean has to be inside another object because Boolean types is not mutable. Now, if you really want to be able to "kill" your threads, you will need another thread interface. For example, Qt threads allows that ... and WxPython offers you some functions to do exactly what I described.
Pierre -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
