[Tutor] [Q] about threads ...waiting :(

[lonetwin]

Hi Jeff, Blake,

   Thanx for replying,

On Tuesday 05 February 2002 05:37, Blake Winton wrote:
> * lonetwin <lonetwin@yahoo.com> [020204 00:42]:
> > >    I tried placing try-except blocks at different places, but all I got
> > > done was exit the thread and print the message, somehow the other
> > > threads were quite comfortable with the fact that one of them is dead,
> > > they just go about their own business as though nothing has happened
> > > ...
>
> Having thought about this a little bit, I can tell you what I do in
> Java.  Have a "ThreadMonitor" class, that gets passed in to each of your
> TestApp classes.  Then, when you get the KeyboardInterrupt exception,
> set a boolean flag in the ThreadMonitor (something like
> "everybodyExitNow"), and in your TestApp class, at various points, check
> the value of the "everybodyExitNow" flag, and if it gets set to true,
> exit the function.  It's not the cleanest way to do things, but it seems
> to get the job done, and it lets the various threads clean up after
> themselves, which is nice.

  Right-O, in fact that's kinda what Kartik suggested. However instead of a 
ThreadMonitor class, he initialized a flag within the __init__ for each 
thread, which gets checked every once in a while, when a KeyboardInterrupt is 
raised, a handler sets the flag for all the threads. It's so simple I feel 
dumb I didn't think about it myself (I said that once already (last post), 
saying it again just makes me feel dumber !!! :) )

   Also, Jeff, thanx for the tip of using a threading.event object, It's like 
doing the same thing, using a feature that's built-in. I guess that's the way 
I'll go.


> By and large, it's a good thing for each thread to now care that another
> thread dies.  No, really...  ;)
    Yeah, was aware of that, only it seemed like ..ehe ...not a nice thing :)

Thanx A bunch, all u guys

Peace
Steve

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