On 7/3/07, Emlyn Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/3/07, Tim Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James Matthews wrote: > > > So i need to make the list a global variable > > > > No, that's not what he did at all. The names just happened to be the > > same, that's all. Consider it this way: > > > > import threading > > def foo( threadresult ): > > threadresult.extend( range(4) ) > > > > result = list() > > thread = threading.Thread(target=foo, args=(result,)) > > thread.start() > > result > >
How about using an object derived from Thread and making 'result' a member of it? http://docs.python.org/lib/thread-objects.html You'd probably also want a variable to tell you if the function has finished. -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments _______________________________________________ Python-win32 mailing list Python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
