[Tutor] Queued threads

[Bernard Lebel]

Hello,
I have already messed a little with simple thread programming, wich took 
this form:

from threading import Thread
def mainFunction():
        pass
Thread( target=mainFunction ).start()
Now, I have a list of "jobs", each job being a windows bat file that 
launches an executable and performs a rendering task. So I have this 
queue of jobs, and would like to launch one only when the previous one 
has finished, and in a separate window. So far I have not been having 
much success with simple stuff:

from threading import Thread
def mainFunction():
    print 'function print'
    return 1
for i in range( 0, 3 ):
    oThread = Thread( target=mainFunction ).start()
    if oThread == 1:
            print 'sleeping 3 seconds'
            time.sleep( 3 )
In this example, 'sleeping 3 seconds' not returned, and each thread is 
started without any waiting.

I'm looking at the various threading module details in the library but I 
have to admit that, well, I'm a bit at loss here.

Thanks in advance
Bernard
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