Frithiof Andreas Jensen wrote: > "Maurice LING" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >>I do have another dumb question which is OT here. Say aFunc method >>instantiates a SOAP server that serves forever, will it prevent bFunc >>from running as a separate thread? > > > If the SOAP server thread never sleeps or block, it will effectively stop > everything else in your program by eating all the CPU time available. If it > does some IO and other OS functions, probably not because it is likely to > block on those - I do not know SOAPpy in detail, but it being a socket-based > server it should end up in a select loop somewhere. i.e. block when no work > is available. which is what you want. > > >>For example, >> >>class myClass4: >> def repeat(self, s): return s+s >> def aFunc(self, a): >> import SOAPpy >> serv = SOAPpy.SOAPServer((a[0], a[1])) >> serv.registerFunction(repeat) >> serv.serve_forever() >> def bFunc(self, b): pass >> def runAll(self, a, b): >> threading.Thread(target=self.aFunc, args = (a)).start() >> threading.Thread(target=self.bFunc, args = (b)).start() >> >>if __name__=='__main__': myClass4().runAll(['localhost', 8000], 'hi') >> >>Will the 2nd thread (bFunc) ever run since the 1st thread is running >>forever? Intuitively, I think that both threads will run but I just want >>to be doubly sure, because some of my program logic depends on the 2nd >>thread running while the 1st thread acts as a SOAP server or something. > > > Both should run independently, sharing the CPU-time available for your > application. Remember "main" is a thread too, so you will want "main" to > hang around while your threads are running and you will want "main" to block > on something also, thread.join(), time.sleep(), command line parser e.t.c. > whatever is natural. > >
Somehow I cannot reconcile your replies because I am essentially asking the same thing and expanding on the original question with an example of what I am trying to do, but the replies seems contradictory. Do you mind to explain a bit more? thanks Maurice -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
