Jean-Paul Calderone wrote: > On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:11:44 -0800, Catherine Moroney > <catherine.m.moro...@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote: >> [snip] >>> >>> The easy thing is to use a Queue object. The background thread uses >>> .put() to place a computed result on the QUeue and the caller uses >>> .get() to read from the queue. There's an assortment of other ways too. >>> >>> Cheers, >> >> Thank you for this hint. This goes a long way to solving >> my problem. >> >> One question - is there any way to name the objects that get >> put on a queue? For my application, it's important to know >> which thread put a particular item on the queue. > > There's lots and lots of ways. The simplest might be to put two-tuples > of the thread identifier and some other object. eg > > queue.put((threadID, obj)) > > Perhaps you can accomplish your goal that way, or perhaps a minor > variation would be more suitable. > Catherine:
Did you attend one of my classes at JPL? Feel free to rope me in to discussions like this if so. (Or even if not: NASA are a good customer). regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
