On 14Jan2009 15:50, Catherine Moroney <catherine.m.moro...@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote: > James Mills wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Catherine Moroney >> <catherine.m.moro...@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote: >>> I would like to spawn off multiple instances of a function >>> and run them simultaneously and then wait until they all complete. [...] >> Try using the python standard threading module. >> Create multiple instances of Thread with target=your_function >> Maintain a list of these new Thread instnaces >> Join (wait) on them. > > What is the proper syntax to use if I wish to return variables > from a function run as a thread?
The easy thing is to use a Queue object. The background thread uses .put() to place a computed result on the QUeue and the caller uses .get() to read from the queue. There's an assortment of other ways too. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
