[Python-Dev] Threading in the Standard Library Tour Part II

Jack Diederich jack at performancedrivers.com
Mon Aug 16 07:42:58 CEST 2004


On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 01:29:52AM -0400, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> > I agree it would help to say more about threading pragmatics.  It's
> > hard to say anything true, though <wink>. 
> 
> After more thought, I'm leaving the existing tour mostly as-is and just
> making minor fixups such as expanding the example.  The tour is supposed
> to provide a brief introduction and not try to cover all that is known.
> 
> Several of the topics exceed my experience and some really need the
> collective experiences of various implementers, teachers, etc.  So, it
> might be worthwhile to have a wiki to collect the useful thoughts and
> use that as a basis for improving the rest of the docs.

One of many GUI examples, lyntin uses a Queue.Queue for synchronization
between the tk/wx/whatever GUI thread, the telnet thread, and execution 
including interactive debugger goodness.  http://sf.net/projects/lyntin/

-Jack


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