Cameron Simpson wrote:
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,
Thank you for this hint. This goes a long way to solving
my problem.
One question - is there any way to name the objects that get
put on a queue? For my application, it's important to know
which thread put a particular item on the queue.
Catherine
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