I just wanted to see if anyone else experienced a problem with the Thread.join() method in Python 2.4. Unfortunately, I did not debug this problem fully before re-writing my code to avoid Thread.join().
My specific situation was that I called subprocess.Popen() to spawn a separate process with the stdout redirected to a pipe. I then created a Thread to process the data coming through the pipe. The thread would terminate when it encountered EOF on the pipe. When I used Thread.join(), I would encounter symptoms that lead me to believe that join() was returning before the subprocess actually terminated. After I rewrote the code to manually manipulate a lock instead of using Thread.join(), the symptoms went away. I guess that I'm just curious to see if anyone else has encountered a problem here, so that a bug can be filed if necessary. I did a quick Google search, but didn't see any other reports. Thanks, - Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
