all i needed to know, thanks very much shawn
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 21:53 -0500, Kent Johnson wrote: > nephish wrote: > > Hey there, i have a program written in python that uses four threads > > that run all at the same time. Now i want to add a new thread with the > > same basic structure (threading.thread) that will run only when needed. > > This one will not run in a loop, it will just run once and quit. > > So, i may need this to be running several times at once because it will > > have a 15 second delay written into it. > > My question is, after the script is done, will it be safe ? i mean, over > > the course of a few days, it may run this thing a few hundred times. if > > it is simple like this > > > > threading.thread > > print 'here is something to say' > > time.sleep(15) > > print 'here is something else' > > > > do i need to include a special command to kill the thread, or will it > > just finish and everything will be ok then ? > > Assuming you are showing the run() method of your thread above, it > should be fine. If the run() method exits the thread terminates and you > don't have to worry about it any more. Make sure you don't keep any > references to the threads so they can be garbage-collected. > > Kent > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
