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Tom wright thomas.wright1 at ntlworld.REMOVETHIS.com
Thu Oct 19 14:41:09 EDT 2000 
Ahem !!!

Released what the problem was !!

For you other newbies,  when you do import moduleName, to use the classes
within the module you still need to do var = modulename.classname().  I
didnt reliase doh!! I thought once you import the module you can access the
classes in your name space, not so!

An alternative here is to use from modulename import *, then you can use var
= classname instead of var = modulename.classname, ah well live and learn.

Tom

"Tom wright" <thomas.wright1 at ntlworld.REMOVETHIS.com> wrote in message
news:LfBH5.14011$oD.307818 at news6-win.server.ntlworld.com...
> Hi All,
>
> sorry if this is a newbie problem, but i have RTFM etc
>
> I have a problem with the following class
>
> from threading import *
>
> class KernelThread(Thread):
>     "A Kernel Thread implementation"
>
>     def __init__(self):
>         # init the base class constructor
>         Thread.__init__()
>         # set the thread to a daemon thread
>         self.setDaemon( TRUE )
>         # create the event we sleep on
>         self.sleepingEvent = Event()
>         # start the thread
>         self.start();
>
>     def run(self):
>         # the main thread event loop
>         while(1):
>             wait( self.sleepingEvent )
>             self.targetObject.handleMessage( self.internalMessage )
>             self.sleepingEvent.clear()
>             del self.targetObject
>             del self.internalMessage
>
>     def handleMessage(self,message,destObject):
>         # set up the data for the thread to handle
>         self.internalMessage = message
>         self.targetObject = destObject
>         self.sleepingEvent.set()
>
> when i try and create an instance of the class i get
>
> >>> t = KernelThread()
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "<pyshell#36>", line 1, in ?
>     t = KernelThread()
> TypeError: call of non-function (type module)
>
> As i am a newbie to Python ( but not programming ), i seem to be missing
> something to do with threading/python syntax here.  Any help REALLY
> appreciated, i am sure its an obvious omission on my part so dont flame me
> to hard :-)
>
> Regards
>
> Tom Wright
>
>
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