On 16.11.2011 14:48, Eduardo Oliva wrote: > I need my script to run 2 separated threads, and then when the first has > finished, starts the next one....but no more than 2 threads. > I know that Semaphores would help with that. > But the problem here is to know when the thread has finished its job, to > release the semaphore and start another thread.
Absolute standard request, has nothing to do with Python. The way to go (in Cish pseudocode) is: thread() { /* do work */ [...] /* finished! */ semaphore++; } semaphore = 2 while (jobs) { semaphore--; // will block if pool exhausted thread(); } // in the end, collect remaining two workers semaphore -= 2 // will block until all are finished Best regards, Henrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list