Nick Timkovich <prometheus...@gmail.com> writes: > My main issue is with how to > exchange data between different threads; can I just do something like > have a global list of messages, appending, modifying, and removing as > needed? Does the threading.Lock object just prevent every other > thread from running, or is it bound somehow to a specific object (like > my list)?
The favored approach to this is to use the Queue module, which gives a thread-safe double ended queue. This is cleaner than messing with lower level synchronization primitives like Lock. You use Queues as communications channels between threads. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
