I think the -print- command, as used in IDLE, is not thread-safe. I was bitten by an issue like that today, and the problem ended up being the -print- command I used.
On the cmd line, it works per-fect-ly.. but IDLE seems to be the culprit. A possible answer seems to be to write a wrapper for print that makes it thread safe (with the help of a lock. On 9/19/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hey all, > > For my study I'm writing a simple threaded webcrawler and I am trying > to do this in python. But somehow, using threads causes IDLE to crash > on Windows XP (with the latest python distribution 2.5.1). Even a > simple example such as this: > > import thread, time > > def doSomething(): > print "something" > > for i in range(2): > thread.start_new(doSomething, ()) > > causes IDLE to freeze when I type it in the interpreter. Using the > python command line everything works just fine. Using IDLE on Debian > linux also does not cause anything to crash. What am I overlooking? > > regards, Writser Cleveringa > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
