> Matthew Sherborne wrote:
> 
> I'd like to do a "waitForMultipleObjects" but I can't find such a
> thing in python thread or threading modules.

If you're only on windows, you could use
win32event.waitForMultipleObjects, which is a simple wrapper around that
API call.

> I suppose I could use a single Condition object that each thread sets,
> but that doesn't seem as efficient as waitfor multiple objects (from
> the win32api).
> 
> Is this something that Python needs? Is it easy to implement for
> different platforms? Is it there, but I haven't noticed it?

waitForMultipleObject is routinely listed as one of the cool things in
the windows API.  That it isn't available generically is probably a
testament to the difficulty of doing cross-platform threads. 

Trent's other answers still apply. =)

-- David Ascher
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