Help with threading

[Tom wright]

Ahem !!!

Released what the problem was !!

For you other newbies,  when you do import moduleName, to use the classes
within the module you still need to do var = modulename.classname().  I
didnt reliase doh!! I thought once you import the module you can access the
classes in your name space, not so!

An alternative here is to use from modulename import *, then you can use var
= classname instead of var = modulename.classname, ah well live and learn.

Tom

"Tom wright" <thomas.wright1 at ntlworld.REMOVETHIS.com> wrote in message
news:LfBH5.14011$oD.307818 at news6-win.server.ntlworld.com...
> Hi All,
>
> sorry if this is a newbie problem, but i have RTFM etc
>
> I have a problem with the following class
>
> from threading import *
>
> class KernelThread(Thread):
>     "A Kernel Thread implementation"
>
>     def __init__(self):
>         # init the base class constructor
>         Thread.__init__()
>         # set the thread to a daemon thread
>         self.setDaemon( TRUE )
>         # create the event we sleep on
>         self.sleepingEvent = Event()
>         # start the thread
>         self.start();
>
>     def run(self):
>         # the main thread event loop
>         while(1):
>             wait( self.sleepingEvent )
>             self.targetObject.handleMessage( self.internalMessage )
>             self.sleepingEvent.clear()
>             del self.targetObject
>             del self.internalMessage
>
>     def handleMessage(self,message,destObject):
>         # set up the data for the thread to handle
>         self.internalMessage = message
>         self.targetObject = destObject
>         self.sleepingEvent.set()
>
> when i try and create an instance of the class i get
>
> >>> t = KernelThread()
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "<pyshell#36>", line 1, in ?
>     t = KernelThread()
> TypeError: call of non-function (type module)
>
> As i am a newbie to Python ( but not programming ), i seem to be missing
> something to do with threading/python syntax here.  Any help REALLY
> appreciated, i am sure its an obvious omission on my part so dont flame me
> to hard :-)
>
> Regards
>
> Tom Wright
>
>