Hello *, i am experimenting with threads and get puzzling results. Consider the following example: #-------------------- import threading, time
def threadfunction(): ....print "threadfunction: entered" ....x = 10 ....while x < 40: ........time.sleep(1) # time unit is seconds ........print "threadfunction x=%d" % x ........x += 10 print "start" th = threading.Thread(target = threadfunction()) th.start() print "start completed" #-------------------- (the dots are inserted becaus Google mangles the lines otherwise) This program gives the following result : ---- start threadfunction: entered threadfunction x=10 threadfunction x=20 threadfunction x=30 start completed ---- My aim was that the main program should continue to run while threadfunction runs in parallel. That's the point of threads after all, isn't it ? I awaited something like the following : start threadfunction: entered start completed <------------------- threadfunction x=10 threadfunction x=20 threadfunction x=30 Does anyone know what's going on here ? Thanks for listening ! Norbert -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
