Maxwell Hammer wrote: > This is related to an earlier post 'Help with thread related > tracebacks'...for which I have had no feedback yet :-(
If the question was well formulated, and it's been more than a couple of days, you should consider reposting. It's very unusual for a post with such a subject (if it was a clear question) to get _no_ feedback around here. > How should a thread complete i.e. how should it exit? As with any function, just return... > Reading the python online docs one gets the idea that simply returning is > OK - but I'm not sure. > Is it ok to do a sys.ext()? Use 'return' or just let them run out with no > 'return' ??? sys.exit() merely raises a SystemExit exception. In the main thread this will terminate the application (assuming no non-daemon threads are still running), while in a non-main thread it should simply be ignored. If you aren't trying to exit from a function call within the thread, using "return" or just falling off the end of the run() method (if you've subclasses Thread) or the target function (if you used the "target=xxx" approach) is quite sufficient and acceptable. Note that "return" is identical to "return None" which is identical to just falling off the end of a function in Python. Some might consider a simple unadorned "return" to be the most expressive and readable. -Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
