On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 13:24:21 +0100, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote: > There seems to be a misunderstanding of threads. You don't call functions > in a thread from the main program. If you call a function from the main > thread then the function is executed in the main thread. That's true for > any call on `Thread` objects except for `start()` which really starts > executing the `run()` method in a separate thread.
Aha, thanks very much for this! > The easiest way for safe communication with threads is a `Queue` like > the one in the `Queue` module. If you want a download thread that > is running alongside the main program all the time then write a while loop > that gets "commands" via a queue. Something like: Brilliant! I will try it out soon. Thanks very much for your help; it has really explained a lot! best regards, -- Matthew Tylee Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
