NewBie Doubt in Python Thread Programming

[James Mills]

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 4:57 PM, vijay swaminathan <swavijay at gmail.com> wrote:

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> 1. How the total active thread is 2?

Your threads are terminating as normal.
Without some kind of loop in your run() method
they will execute the instructions and terminate.

> 2. how do I stop a thread? does it get automatically stopped after execution

Usually by a flag or condition that terminates your run() function/method.

> 3. Am I totally wrong in understanding the concepts.
> 4. what is the difference between active_count() and activeCount() since
> both seem to give the same result.

They are synonyms.

> 5. is there a way to find out if the thread is still active or dead?

See: pydoc threading.Thread or help(threading.Thread)

cheers
James

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