Re: NewBie Doubt in Python Thread Programming

2011-05-12 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 3:35 PM, vijay swaminathan swavi...@gmail.com wrote: I tried using QThread as well.. But the problem is, on the run method when i invoke the command prompt, it sends out the finished signal...  I want it to send out the finished signal only on closing the command prompt

Re: NewBie Doubt in Python Thread Programming

2011-05-12 Thread vijay swaminathan
Hi Chris, I tried using os.system as well but it did not even open up the command prompt. Can you please share the code that worked for you.. just wondering if I'm missing something very basic. Regards, -Vijay Swaminathan., On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com

Re: NewBie Doubt in Python Thread Programming

2011-05-12 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 7:42 PM, vijay swaminathan swavi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Chris, I tried using os.system as well but it did not even open up the command prompt. Can you please share the code that worked for you.. just wondering if I'm missing something very basic. Caveat: I'm not

NewBie Doubt in Python Thread Programming

2011-05-11 Thread vijay swaminathan
Hi All, I'm new bie to thread programming and I need some assistance in understanding few concepts ... I have a very simple program which runs a thread and prints a string. import threading class MyThread(threading.Thread): def __init__(self, parent = None):

Re: NewBie Doubt in Python Thread Programming

2011-05-11 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 4:57 PM, vijay swaminathan swavi...@gmail.com wrote:     for i in range(10):     MyThread_Object.start()     count = threading.activeCount() When I run this, I could see 10 thread being called. But when I print the active thread count it is only 2. Need some

Re: NewBie Doubt in Python Thread Programming

2011-05-11 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Wed, 11 May 2011 03:57:13 -0300, vijay swaminathan swavi...@gmail.com escribió: Hi All, I'm new bie to thread programming and I need some assistance in understanding few concepts ... I have a very simple program which runs a thread and prints a string. import threading class

Re: NewBie Doubt in Python Thread Programming

2011-05-11 Thread James Mills
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 4:57 PM, vijay swaminathan swavi...@gmail.com wrote: [...] 1. How the total active thread is 2? Your threads are terminating as normal. Without some kind of loop in your run() method they will execute the instructions and terminate. 2. how do I stop a thread? does it

Re: NewBie Doubt in Python Thread Programming

2011-05-11 Thread Chris Angelico
I'm responding to this on-list on the assumption that this wasn't meant to be private; apologies if you didn't intend for this to be the case! On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 6:38 PM, vijay swaminathan swavi...@gmail.com wrote: so If i understand correctly, once the run method of the thread is executed,

Re: NewBie Doubt in Python Thread Programming

2011-05-11 Thread vijay swaminathan
Sorry. My intention was not to send out a private message. when I chose reply to all, I was confused if this would start as a new thread. so just did a reply.. coming back, I have developed a GUI based on pyQT4 which has a run button. when I click on run, it invokes a command prompt and runs a

Re: NewBie Doubt in Python Thread Programming

2011-05-11 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 7:08 PM, vijay swaminathan swavi...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry. My intention was not to send out a private message. when I chose reply to all, I was confused if this would start as a new thread. so just did a reply.. No probs. If you just send your response to the list

Re: NewBie Doubt in Python Thread Programming

2011-05-11 Thread Wojtek Mamrak
Is there any special reason you don't want to use QThread? http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/static/Docs/PyQt4/html/qthread.html#details regards 2011/5/11 Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com: On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 7:08 PM, vijay swaminathan swavi...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry. My intention was not

Re: NewBie Doubt in Python Thread Programming

2011-05-11 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 1:16 AM, Wojtek Mamrak tacyt1...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any special reason you don't want to use QThread? http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/static/Docs/PyQt4/html/qthread.html#details Other than that QThread is part of QT and threading isn't, what are the advantages

Re: NewBie Doubt in Python Thread Programming

2011-05-11 Thread Wojtek Mamrak
2011/5/11 Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com: On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 1:16 AM, Wojtek Mamrak tacyt1...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any special reason you don't want to use QThread? http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/static/Docs/PyQt4/html/qthread.html#details Other than that QThread is part of QT

Re: NewBie Doubt in Python Thread Programming

2011-05-11 Thread vijay swaminathan
I tried using QThread as well.. But the problem is, on the run method when i invoke the command prompt, it sends out the finished signal... I want it to send out the finished signal only on closing the command prompt that is invoked earlier in my process. guess some logic to be implement inside