Calling a thread asynchronously with a callback

[Bjoern Schliessmann]

Edwin Gomez wrote:

> I'm a C# developer and I'm new to Python.  I would like to know if
> the concept of Asynchronous call-backs exists in Python.

Sure. Either with this:

http://twistedmatrix.com/projects/core/documentation/howto/async.html

Or manually using select().

> Basically what I mean is that I dispatch a thread and when the
> thread completes it invokes a method from the calling thread. 
> Sort event driven concept with threads.

What you describe here isn't the only way to do asynchronous
callbacks. See above for a simpler way.

Regards,


Björn

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