[Tkinter-discuss] thread module

[Amit Finkler]

Hi all,


mkieverpy at tlink.de wrote:

> Hi Amit,
>
>   
>> 1.   I created a global variable named "QuitThread" on my main module.
>> 2.   I initially set it to "False".
>> 3.   When clicking on the "Run" button of my GUI (defined in the main
>> module), a new thread starts using start_new_thread, where QuitThread is
>> one of the variables in its tuple.
>>     
>
> This sounds wrong. You don't need QuitThread as a parameter to
> start_new_thread.
>
>   
Fixed that. No errors yet.
>> 4.   This new thread runs a function from a second module. In this
>> module I also added "import thread".
>> 5.   This function runs a loop in which it checks every iteration
>> whether QuitThread is True or False.
>> 6.   If it is True, it executes "thread.exit()".
>> 7.   Nothing happens. The thread continues on running.
>>     
>
> has your problem been solved in the mean time?
> If not two things to check/try:
> - thread.exit works by throwing an exception. Make sure you don't
>   catch it by accident.
>   
In my function (in the second module), the loops runs in a "try:" and I
added the following exception:

    except QuitThread == 1:  
            thread.exit()

Now, it crashes with the following error message

    NameError: global name 'QuitThread' is not defined

and it points to the above exception as the source of the error. This is
strange, since QuitThread is definitely defined as a global variable in
the main module.

> - Print/log value of QuitThread on every access in both threads.
>   
By the way, it *doesn't* crash when I comment out the "print QuitThread"
line inside the loop.

Thanks for you help,

Amit.
>
> Cheers,
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> Matthias Kievernagel                                      Software development
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