ok, how would i have it re-initialize itself ? yes, i want to do this on a failure condition. something wrapped in a try - except
its long and complicated dealing with talking to a dataserver over ip and passing byte streams back and forth. i just need to do this for testing to see where something is failing and how soon i could re-connect to the data server. whew ! thanks shawn On 7/20/07, Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
shawn bright wrote: > If i have a thread, of type threading.Thread > that i initiate with an __init__ > in the > def run(self): > while 1: > do some stuff > > > is there a way i can stop this thread and restart this thread from > within itself ? No. A thread stops by exiting the run method, then it is done. And how would a stopped thread restart itself? What you can do, is write your run() method to do whatever you want; in particular it could sense some condition and re-initialize itself. If you are using a Thread subclass and overriding run() (as opposed to passing the run method to the constructor) you can use the subclass to hold any state you need and you can write/call any other methods you need. Kent
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