(Synchronous) Thread Control [Solved!]

[Olivier Parisy]

phansen wrote:
> Olivier Parisy wrote:
> 
>> It seems like the main thread never exits from join(), in spite of
>> the timeout and the likeliness of the sub thread ending.
>>
>> Any idea of what I've done wrong?
> 
> Nothing at all.  It works fine here.  (And nice clean code
> you have, by the way.)

Hey, thanks! High-level languages are nice in that you can spend more
time on polish, indeed :-)


> Are you running this from the command line, or inside some
> other tool, or something else unusual?  What versions of
> Python and OS are you using?

Gosh, you are right: this definitely works fine in the command line.
I was running this from a Linux file manager (using "launch in a
terminal" and "keep the terminal open" options), but something
seems to be wrong with this approach.

Regards,
Olivier.