Hallo Michael, > I have a simple application that needs one thread to manage networking > in addition to the main "thread" that does the main job. It's not > working right. I know hardly anything about threads, so I was hoping > someone could point me in the right direction to research this. > > Basically, I have a program that does some computational work, and > also conveys its status to a monitor program elsewhere on the network > via sockets. I wanted to use a thread to manage the networking so that > the main program can run without regard to networking (i.e. they would > be asynchronous). So the network thread loops and calls select. > > My problem is that in some cases, the network thread appears to stop, > while the main thread is doing a long computation. > > I'm hoping someone can give me a general idea what to read about. For > example, under what conditions does a thread stop running? Can other > threads "take priority"? Are there certain operations that block other > threads (such as disk access)?
May I suggest: http://www.dabeaz.com/python/GIL.pdf HTH, Loïc -- My Blog: http://www.domaigne.com/blog "There is only one problem with common sense; it’s not very common." -- Milt Bryce -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
