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(Hopefully) Simple Threading Question

John Abel johnfabel at btinternet.com
Sat Dec 14 14:44:07 EST 2002 
Hi!

Sorry for the delay.  Thanks for that, it was what I wondering!

Thanks

John

James J. Besemer wrote:

>
>
> John Abel wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> Hopefully, this is a simple question.  I have a script, made up of a 
>> few classes, one of which is run as a thread.  A main function, sorts 
>> out the thread, everything runs OK.  Now, I need to integrate this 
>> script, into another, which also handles threads.  My question is, 
>> can I put my main function, from the original script, into a class, 
>> which is then launched as a thread from my second script?
>
>
> I do it all the time.
>
> For convenience, I have a member function to run as a thread and a 
> second member called "start..." to actually start the thread.  Then 
> the caller is less likely to make a mistake, spelling out the 
> thread.start_new_thread() in long hand.
>
> class foo:
>     def watcher( self ):
>         for line in self.readline:
>             line = line.strip()
>             print line
>
>     def start_watcher( self ):
>         thread.start_new_thread( self.watcher, ())
>     
>
>
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