No threading.start_new_thread(), useful addition?

[Ulrich Eckhardt]

Laszlo Nagy wrote:
> Ulrich Eckhardt írta:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I'm looking at the 'threading' module and see that other than the
>> 'thread' module it doesn't have a simple function to start a new thread.
>> Instead, you first have to instantiate a threading object and then start
>> the new thread on it:
>>
>>   t = threading.Thread(target=my_function)
>>   t.start()
>>
>> What I'm wondering is if following function wouldn't be a good addition
>> to the threading module:
>>
>>   def start_new_thread(target, ..):
>>       t = Thread(target, ..)
>>       t.start()
>>       return t
> What is wrong with thread.start_new_thread ?

The 'thread' module is more or less deprecated.

> At least it supports function arguments. Your suggested addition would
> only useful if you want to start argument-less functions in separate
> threads, from multiple places in a module.

To quote from my own posting:
 | Note: I left out the additional parameters for brevity, but they
 | should of course be forwarded, but the 'target' parameter is not
 | optional as it is with Thread's constructor.

No, this is supposed to support function arguments, too.

> You can use this one-liner:
> 
> import threading.Thread as thr
> 
> thr(target=my_function).start()

No, as this one doesn't give me a handle to the thread. I also find this
barely readable, for sure it doesn't beat the readability of the proposed
function.

Uli

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