Maybe I'm missing it, but in the original code, the line had
thread.start_new_thread(myfunction,("Thread No:1",2))
It has a single arg ("Thread No:1",2) versus something like
thread.start_new_thread(myfunction,1, 2, ("Thread No:1",2))
But
def myfunction(string,sleeptime,*args):
clearly takes two args. I don't get how the single arg ("Thread No:1",
2) in start_new_thread() gets magically converted two arges, string
and sleeptime, before it reaches myfunction().
As John pointed out, the start_new_thread passes *args to your
function. So you would define a your function:
def myfunc(some_string, some_int):
print "The string value:", some_string
print "The int value", some_int
thread.start_new_thread(myfunc, "some string", 42)
should print
The string value: some string
The int value: 42
because all the subsequent values after the function-handle/name
get passed into the function when it gets called. As if the
start_new_thread() function was defined as
def start_new_thread(fn, *args, **kwargs):
thread_magic_happens_here()
result = fn(*args, **kwargs)
return more_thread_magic_happens_here(result)
-tkc
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