In article <j3rdg00...@news6.newsguy.com>,
Chris Torek <nos...@torek.net> wrote:
> For that matter, you can use the following to get what the OP asked
> for. (Change all the instance variables to __-prefixed versions
> if you want them to be Mostly Private.)
>
> import threading
>
> class ValThread(threading.Thread):
> "like threading.Thread, but the target function's return val is captured"
> def __init__(self, group=None, target=None, name=None,
> args=(), kwargs=None, verbose=None):
> super(ValThread, self).__init__(group, None, name, None, None,
> verbose)
> self.value = None
> self.target = target
> self.args = args
> self.kwargs = {} if kwargs is None else kwargs
>
> def run(self):
> "run the thread"
> if self.target:
> self.value = self.target(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
>
> def join(self, timeout = None):
> "join, then return value set by target function"
> super(ValThread, self).join(timeout)
> return self.value
Yeah, that's pretty much what I had in mind. I'm inclined to write up a
PEP proposing that this become the standard behavior of
threading.Thread. It seems useful, and I can't see any way it would
break any existing code.
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