Laszlo Nagy wrote: > Ulrich Eckhardt írta: >> Hi! >> >> I'm looking at the 'threading' module and see that other than the >> 'thread' module it doesn't have a simple function to start a new thread. >> Instead, you first have to instantiate a threading object and then start >> the new thread on it: >> >> t = threading.Thread(target=my_function) >> t.start() >> >> What I'm wondering is if following function wouldn't be a good addition >> to the threading module: >> >> def start_new_thread(target, ..): >> t = Thread(target, ..) >> t.start() >> return t > What is wrong with thread.start_new_thread ?
The 'thread' module is more or less deprecated. > At least it supports function arguments. Your suggested addition would > only useful if you want to start argument-less functions in separate > threads, from multiple places in a module. To quote from my own posting: | Note: I left out the additional parameters for brevity, but they | should of course be forwarded, but the 'target' parameter is not | optional as it is with Thread's constructor. No, this is supposed to support function arguments, too. > You can use this one-liner: > > import threading.Thread as thr > > thr(target=my_function).start() No, as this one doesn't give me a handle to the thread. I also find this barely readable, for sure it doesn't beat the readability of the proposed function. Uli -- Sator Laser GmbH Geschäftsführer: Thorsten Föcking, Amtsgericht Hamburg HR B62 932 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
