pygtk, threads and the Game of Life

[Rajarshi Guha]

HI,
  I'm new to threads and am trying to program a Game Of Life with PyGTK
and threads. The structure of my program is as follows:

class GUIThread(Thread):
  
  def __init__(self):
   Thread.__init__(self)
  
  def run(self):
   # Create GUI
   gtk.mainloop()

if __name__ == '__main__':
  g = GUIThread()
  g.run()
  for i in range(0,1000): print i

Now, I expected that the program would draw a window with a grid and
randomly fill in boxes and also print out the numbers from 1 to 1000 in
the console window. However, only the GUI shows and the numbers dont get
printed.

I think I should be using an idle function - but I was'nt sure how to
implement it. Basically I not very clear as to how I can iterate over an
array and each time an element changes change the corresponding grid in
the GUI. I though that I could start up the GUI in a thread and let it
run in the background. Meanwhile in the foreground I would iterate over
the array and change the GUI display when required. But it does'nt seem
to be working.

Can anybody point out the proper path to take?

Thanks,