Hi,
I'm trying to work out some strange (to me) behaviour that I see when
running a python script in two different ways (I've inherited some
code that needs to be maintained and integrated with another lump of
code). The sample script is:
# Sample script, simply create a new thread and run a
# regular expression match in it.
import re
import threading
class TestThread(threading.Thread):
def run(self):
print('start')
try:
re.search('mmm', 'mmmm')
except Exception, e:
print e
print('finish')
tmpThread = TestThread()
tmpThread.start()
tmpThread.join()
import time
for i in range(10):
time.sleep(0.5)
print i
# end of sample script
Now if I run this using:
$ python ThreadTest.py
then it behaves as expected, ie an output like:
start
finish
0
1
2
...
But if I run it as follows (how the inherited code was started):
$ python -c "import TestThread"
then I just get:
start
I know how to get around the problem but could someone with more
knowledge of how python works explain why this is the case?
Thanks,
Rowan
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