How to get success/failure in case of thread

[Aahz]

In article <mailman.1059397780.20866.python-list at python.org>,
 <vivek at cs.unipune.ernet.in> wrote:
>
>  I am trying to learn using threads  in python. But the main problem I am 
>facing is how to check whether the function called using a thread succeeded or
>failed. like when I call:
>  import thread
>  thread.start_new_thread(my_func,(args,))
>
>here my_func will return true/1 on success and false/0 on failure. How can I
>check whether the function failed/succeeded ???

While Queue is probably the best way, you could also subclass from
threading.Thread, call your function from the run() method, then set an
instance attribute.
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