Passing arguments to threading objects

[Alexander Skwar]

Hello.

I'm currently learning Python 2.2 (on Linux) and just started tinkering
around with threads.  I've got the following code:

import threading
import random
import time

def mache(name, max):
	for i in range(max):
		print `name` + ': ' + `i`
		time.sleep(random.random())

class myThread(threading.Thread):
	def run(self, name, max):
		for i in range(max):
			print `name` + ': ' + `i`

for t_num in range(10):
#	t = threading.Thread(target = mache, args = (t_num, 10))
	t = myThread(args = (t_num, 10))
	t.start()

As you can see, I created a subclass "myThread" of threading.Thread.
There, I'd like to overwrite the run method and pass two parameters into
it.  This obviously does not work.

However, when I use the base class as in the commented out line and set a
target which also requires two arguments, I get what I'd expect to get.

When I subclass threading.Thread, how can I access the args parameter
passed to the constructor?

Thanks,

Alexander Skwar
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