MainThread blocks all others

[Nodir Gulyamov]

I had future investigation and as I understand in POSIX compliant threads, 
getting value of semaphore should be exist.
As the matter of fact Python threads is not fully POSIX compliant. Pitty!
Contining looking for another solution.

"Nodir Gulyamov" <gelios at rbcmail.ru> wrote in message 
news:42f9d4ef_2 at news.isis.de...
> Hi Bryan,
>    Thanks for your reply.
> I tried to test your solution, but it doesn't work, hence 
> threading.Semaphore object hasn't method to get value of semaphore.
> I looked to source code of semaphore.py and find out that value is private 
> variable.
>
> Best regards,
> /Gelios
>
> "Bryan Olson" <fakeaddress at nowhere.org> wrote in message 
> news:fRaKe.3656$zr1.2646 at newssvr13.news.prodigy.com...
>>I  wrote:
>> > Make self.counter a semaphore. Untested code:
>>
>> A little clean-up. Still untested:
>>
>> import threading
>>
>> class class1:
>>     def __init__(self):
>>         self.counter = threading.semaphore(0)
>>         result = self.doSomeJob()
>>
>>     def increaseCounter(self):
>>         self.counter.release()
>>
>>     def doSomeJob(self):
>>         # Busy-waiting sucks.
>>         # while counter != 1:
>>         #    pass
>>         self.counter.acquire()
>>         # ... continue...
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> --Bryan
>
>