Wesley Henwood wrote: > So I declare a variable named A in thread1, in script1.py. I assign > the value of 2.5 to A. I then run script2.py in thread2. Script2.py > assigns the value of 5.5 to a variable named A. Now, when thread1 > resums execution, I see that A = 5.5, rather than 2.5 as I expected. > > Is this normal behavior? Based on the little documentation I have been > able to find on this topic, it is normal behavior. The only way to use > same-named variables in scripts is to have them run in a different > process, rather than different threads.
Yes and No. local variables are local to each threads. Global variables are global to the threads. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list