David Reed wrote: > On May 11, 2006, at 8:02 PM, placid wrote: > > > > > Carl J. Van Arsdall wrote: > >> placid wrote: > >>> Hi all, > >>> > >>> In Python, Threads cannot be paused, i remember reading this > >>> somewhere, > >>> so is there a way around this ? > >>> > >> > >> When you say paused do you mean paused by an external source or > >> paused > >> by a call internal to the thread? There are plenty of > >> synchronization > >> constructs for making threads wait: Check out Events and Conditions > > > > I have a thread that has a job Queue, it continuosly polls this queue > > to see if there are any jobs for it, what i really wont to be able to > > do is, when the queue is empty, i want the thread to pause (or more > > technical, i want the thread to block) until the queue gets populated > > again. Is this possible ? > > > > > > > The previous poster answered your question - you want to use a > condition variable. > > http://docs.python.org/lib/condition-objects.html
thanks, this is what i was after > > Dave -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
