Problem with multithreading

[Lou Pecora]

In article <h20d7k$nih$03$1 at news.t-online.com>,
 "larudwer" <larudwer at freenet.de> wrote:

> "Jeffrey Barish" <jeff_barish at earthlink.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
> news:mailman.2091.1245902997.8015.python-list at python.org...
> > Jeffrey Barish wrote:
> >
> >> I have a program that uses multithreading to monitor two loops.  When
> >> something happens in loop1, it sends a message to loop2 to have it 
> >> execute
> >> a command.  loop2 might have to return a result.  If it does, it puts the
> >> result in a queue.  loop1, meanwhile, would have blocked waiting for
> >> something to appear in the queue.  The program works for a while, but
> >> eventually freezes.  I know that freezing is a sign of deadlock. 
> >> However,
> >> I put in print statements to localize the problem and discovered 
> >> something
> >> weird.  The freeze always occurs at a point in the code with the 
> >> following
> >> statements:
> >>
> >> print "about to try"
> >> try:
> >>     print "in try"
> >>     <do something>
> >>
> >> I get "about to try", but not "in try".  Is this observation consistent

Try putting a flush in after the 2nd print statement in case the output 
is left in some I/O buffer when the thing terminates.  e.g.

import sys

....

try:
   print 'in try"
   sys.stdout.flush()
   <do something>

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-- Lou Pecora