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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">Hi all,<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:mkieverpy@tlink.de">mkieverpy@tlink.de</a>
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<pre wrap="">Hi Amit,
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<pre wrap="">1. I created a global variable named "QuitThread" on my main module.
2. I initially set it to "False".
3. When clicking on the "Run" button of my GUI (defined in the main
module), a new thread starts using start_new_thread, where QuitThread is
one of the variables in its tuple.
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This sounds wrong. You don't need QuitThread as a parameter to
start_new_thread.
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Fixed that. No errors yet.<br>
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<pre wrap="">4. This new thread runs a function from a second module. In this
module I also added "import thread".
5. This function runs a loop in which it checks every iteration
whether QuitThread is True or False.
6. If it is True, it executes "thread.exit()".
7. Nothing happens. The thread continues on running.
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has your problem been solved in the mean time?
If not two things to check/try:
- thread.exit works by throwing an exception. Make sure you don't
catch it by accident.
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In my function (in the second module), the loops runs in a "try:" and I
added the following exception:<br>
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except QuitThread == 1: <br>
thread.exit()<br>
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Now, it crashes with the following error message<br>
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NameError: global name 'QuitThread' is not defined<br>
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and it points to the above exception as the source of the error. This
is strange, since QuitThread is definitely defined as a global variable
in the main module. <br>
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<pre wrap="">- Print/log value of QuitThread on every access in both threads.
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By the way, it *doesn't* crash when I comment out the "print
QuitThread" line inside the loop.<br>
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Thanks for you help,<br>
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Amit.
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