Danny Yoo wrote: >>I think I see where you are going with this. Are you suggesting that >>both parent and child thread might be trying to write to the log at >>once, and one of them is closing the file while it is open for both? > > > Hi Bernard, > > One possibility is that we have a shared resource that needs some kind of > mutual exclusion. If two threads try to append directly to the file, I > don't know what will happen, but the result will probably not be good. > > > But the Queue module can be especially useful here: > > http://www.python.org/doc/lib/module-Queue.html > > The idea is that we keep a separate logger thread that reads messages off > a Queue instance.
You might be interested in the standard logging module which is thread-safe and supports logging to a file, rather than inventing your own. Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
