Roy Smith wrote: > I have a function I want to run in a thread and return a value. It > seems like the most obvious way to do this is to have my target > function return the value, the Thread object stash that someplace, and > return it as the return value for join(). > > Yes, I know there's other ways for a thread to return values (pass the > target a queue, for example), but making the return value of the > target function available would have been the most convenient. I'm > curious why threading wasn't implemented this way.
Because then the code launching the thread would have to block, waiting until the thread is completed, so it will have a result to return. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
