akrapus wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to understand how to use threading in Python. I get > threading as a concept, but not the implementation. > > In order to start threading, do you call it as a separate function, > which will then be applied to the rest of the code (functions) or do > you open threading in each function. This all can probably be answered > by 'How python threads different functions'? > > Hope if somebody can drop me a few lines. I've been trying with > different tutorials, but still do not understand. > > Cheers, > > Stevan > So, I've played with python threading a fair bit, but if you don't need to delve too far into anything special you can get away with doing things fairly simply using the threading module
Basically (and this may be over simplifiied for this example), but you can create a thread() object and basically pass it a function pointer. Then you can control the thread object fairly easily with methods such as start() and join(). So, here's an example of how I might thread a function: #BEGIN Code def funcToThread(): print "I'm a function" myThread = threading.Thread(target=functToThread) #a function name without parens basically yields a function pointer myThread.start() #Performs necessary tasks in order to run this thread #Here might be other stuff in your main thread of execution myThread.join() #say you want to force synchronization at some point #END Code Anyhow, there are more ways to do it and it really depends on your needs as to how far you need to take this. Hope that helps. -carl -- Carl J. Van Arsdall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Build and Release MontaVista Software -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
