[Tutor] Waiting until a thread ends

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>> In my continuing quest the find the best way of doing this I came across
>> the following method:
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>>     for thread in threading.enumerate():
>>         if thread is not threading.currentThread():
>>             thread.join()
>>     print 'FINISHED'
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>> In my newbie understanding, you can't join() the current thread, because
>> it's the main thread (the one from which the others are called), join()ing
>> it would lock the program up (it would never complete).
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>> The above only join()s a thread if it isn't the current thread, thus
>> (hopefully) getting around this. Swapping my earlier stupid code for this
>> seems to work as expected in my tests.
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> Thanks for the postbacks, it's been useful/interesting for me.
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> Best,
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> Walter
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I'm really pleased that it was of some help to somebody else too.

Kind Regards,

Chris
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