Thanks all, and special thanks to Jeff Shannon for pointing out the Queue object.
I used the Queue. It's going good now. And I used the blocking get method, so it has almost cpu usage when idle. :) It was reading data from 4 serial ports (one on each thread) and the consumer thread was pattern checking the data, to see which port our hardware is installed on. In the main thread is a wxPython app. If there's no H/W attached we allow the user to go cancel, which must stop the thread. So to cancel, we send the string 'quit' on the queue :) Thanks again. I didn't know about Queue. Matthew Sherborne _______________________________________________ ActivePython mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
