On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 11:23 -0800, rcmn wrote: > I'm not sure how to call it sorry for the subject description. > Here what i'm trying to accomplish. > the script i'm working on, take a submitted list (for line in file) > and generate thread for it. unfortunately winxp has a limit of 500 > thread . So I have to parse/slice the file by chunk of 500 and loop > until the list is done. > I though i would of done it in no time but i can't get started for > some reason. > And i can't find a good way to do it efficiently . Does anyone have > something similar to this.
If your thread is smart enough to handle the file you can do something like: class Worker(threading.Thread): def __init__(self, file_object): self.file_object = file_object threading.Thread.__init__(self) def run(self): while True: line = self.file_object.readline() if line == '': return # process line NUM_WORKERS = 500 bigfile = open('somefile', 'r') workers = [Worker(bigfile) for i in range(NUM_WORKERS)] for worker in workers: worker.start() -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list