A daemon... Good idea, and that makes more sense for what the thread does anyway; it is just a timer, updating a variable by contacting a server every hour. By the way, just what is the difference between user32.PostQuitMessage (0) and sys.exit()?
On 3/24/10, Tim Golden <m...@timgolden.me.uk> wrote: > On 24/03/2010 10:43, Alex Hall wrote: >> Hi all, >> I have a program with a timer in it, therefore I have multiple >> threads. My method of exiting by using "user32.PostQuitMessage (0)" no >> longer seems to be doing the job since I added the timer. What else do >> I have to do to close my program? I say it is not closing because, >> before, I would be returned to a prompt in the cmd line, but now I >> cannot type in the cmd line window even after the program supposedly >> closes, whereas before I could have. Thanks. >> > > Make the timer thread a daemon? > > TJG > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- Have a great day, Alex (msg sent from GMail website) mehg...@gmail.com; http://www.facebook.com/mehgcap -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
