In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Benjamin Niemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> However, in my current project I'm creating a bunch of threads which
>> are supposed to run until they've completed their run() method, and I'm
>> worried that if I do not keep references to these thread objects
>> around, the GC might happily delete them (and thereby kill my thread
>> routines maybe?) while they're not done yet. Is this fear justified?
>The threading module does already take care of keeping references to all
>running threads,
The implementation of threading.enumerate() would be entertaining if it
didn't.
Quite apart from which, I presume the OP's run() method looks something
like:
class MyThread(threading.Thread):
def run(self):
...
So what is self if not a reference to the Thread object which is kept
around until run() has completed?
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