On Apr 11, 10:39 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch" <de...@nospam.web.de> wrote: > tleeuwenb...@gmail.com schrieb: > > > Is there anyway to begin a thread and execute a finite number of lines > > of code, or a finite amount of time within it? > > > For example, say I create three child threads and I want to guarantee > > equal timeshare between them, can I specify a quanta (say 400 LOC > > although I know that is pretty small) to execute in each one in turn? > > Not as such, no. You can play tricks with the trace-module, but these > ultimately fail when the code in question runs inside C - which puts a > stop to any python interpreter scheduling anyway, thus native threads > are used which can't be controlled on that level. > > Diez
Mmmm good point. 1 line of Python != 1 line of C. That's probably not very important for what I have in mind, but I hadn't really been considering that angle. Cheers, -T -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
