sturlamolden wrote: > On 8 Okt, 09:17, Ulrich Eckhardt <eckha...@satorlaser.com> wrote: > >> I'm looking at the 'threading' module and see that other than the >> 'thread' module it doesn't have a simple function to start a new thread. >> Instead, you first have to instantiate a threading object and then start >> the new thread on it: >> >> t = threading.Thread(target=my_function) >> t.start() > > One usually want to subclass threading.Thread instead of specifying a > target function.
No. You also don't derive from a file class in order to read a file. The point is that the Thread instance is not a thread but it is an object that can be used to access a thread, similar to a File instance which file which is not the file but just an object to access one. I personally find it much cleaner this way. Also, why should any code care in which thread it is executed? Why should I have to derive a class from some other only because I want to run one of its functions in a separate thread? I don't want to start a discussion which principle is better, that would only end in endless discussions, but I'd like to point out that the principle of deriving from a thread class is not universally accepted. ;) Cheers! Uli -- Sator Laser GmbH Geschäftsführer: Thorsten Föcking, Amtsgericht Hamburg HR B62 932 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list