On Saturday, 18 May 2013 10:58:13 UTC+2, Jurgens de Bruin wrote: > This is my first script where I want to use the python threading module. I > have a large dataset which is a list of dict this can be as much as 200 > dictionaries in the list. The final goal is a histogram for each dict 16 > histograms on a page ( 4x4 ) - this already works. > > What I currently do is a create a nested list [ [ {} ], [ {} ] ] each inner > list contains 16 dictionaries, thus each inner list is a single page of 16 > histograms. Iterating over the outer-list and creating the graphs takes to > long. So I would like multiple inner-list to be processes simultaneously and > creating the graphs in "parallel". > > I am trying to use the python threading for this. I create 4 threads loop > over the outer-list and send a inner-list to the thread. This seems to work > if my nested lists only contains 2 elements - thus less elements than > threads. Currently the scripts runs and then seems to get hung up. I monitor > the resource on my mac and python starts off good using 80% and when the > 4-thread is created the CPU usages drops to 0%. > > > > My thread creating is based on the following : > http://www.tutorialspoint.com/python/python_multithreading.htm > > > > Any help would be create!!!
Thanks to all for the discussion/comments on threading, although I have not been commenting I have been following. I have learnt a lot and I am still reading up on everything mentioned. Thanks again Will see how I am going to solve my senario. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list