On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:57:52 -0500 RGK <bl...@empty.blank> wrote: > I have a thread that is off reading things some of which will get > written into a file while another UI thread manages input from a user. > > The reader-thread and the UI-thread will both want to write stuff to the > same output file. What first comes to mind is that there may be write > collisions, ie both trying to write at the same time.
Why not create a third thread that handles the write? The other threads can simply add objects to a queue. You will still need collision handling in the queue adder but it only needs to block for a small time as opposed to the much longer disk write time. -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain <da...@druid.net> | Democracy is three wolves http://www.druid.net/darcy/ | and a sheep voting on +1 416 425 1212 (DoD#0082) (eNTP) | what's for dinner. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
