On Mar 25, 7:05 am, grocery_stocker <cdal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Given the following code... > > #!/usr/bin/env python > > import time > import thread > > def myfunction(string,sleeptime,*args): > while 1: > > print string > time.sleep(sleeptime) #sleep for a specified amount of time. > > if __name__=="__main__": > > thread.start_new_thread(myfunction,("Thread No:1",2)) > > while 1:pass > > Taken from following URL....http://linuxgazette.net/107/pai.html > > How can myfunction() extract the tuple ("Thread No:1",2) from > start_new_thread() if myfunction is only being passed the single arg > ("Thread No:1",2)
The only thing that I think of is that the tuple ("Thread No:1",2) is somehow being extract before it gets passed to myfunction(). Ie, something like the following... [cdal...@localhost ~]$ python Python 2.4.3 (#1, Oct 1 2006, 18:00:19) [GCC 4.1.1 20060928 (Red Hat 4.1.1-28)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> def myfunction(first, second, *args): ... print "The formal args are: ", args ... print "the first value is:", first ... print "the second value is:", second ... >>> a, b = (1,2) >>> myfunction(a,b) The formal args are: () the first value is: 1 the second value is: 2 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list