Threading problem

[Larry Whitley]

Nevermind, I see it now.  Funny how you can fail to see something so simple,
come back to it in an hour and there it is.  I should have said:

  theading.Thead.__init__(self, name=thName)

L

"Larry Whitley" <ldw at us.ibm.com> wrote in message
news:a8f8f6$vdu$1 at news.rchland.ibm.com...
> I have a PC with two processors at work and have decided to try to use
> threading to run some long running console applications.  My basic idea is
> to start two threads, one for each processor, and give them a list of
things
> to do.  As each thread finishes it one job will go to the list and pick
off
> the next thing to do.  When the list is empty, both threads are done.
>
> Here's a snippet of the code that inherits from threading.Thread:
>
> class MyThread(threading.Thread):
>     def __init__(self, thName, jobList, jobLock):
>         threading.Thread().__init__(self, name=thName)
>         self.jobList = jobList
>         self.jobLock = jobLock
>
>
> My code is failing in first statement of the constructor, you can see the
> error below.
>
>
> X:\Projects\Pecos\ttc6\thsp>run.py
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "X:\Projects\Pecos\ttc6\thsp\run.py", line 59,
>     main()
>   File "X:\Projects\Pecos\ttc6\thsp\run.py", line 46,
>     th1 = MyThread( "Thread1", jobList, jobLock )
>   File "X:\Projects\Pecos\ttc6\thsp\run.py", line 9, i
>     threading.Thread().__init__(self, name=thName)
>   File "C:\Python22\lib\threading.py", line 355, in __
>     assert group is None, "group argument must be None
> AssertionError: group argument must be None for now
>
> The thing that puzzles me is that threading.Thread() is insisting that
> group=None.  That's ok with me, and I haven't changed it, yet it's
> complaining as if I did.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Larry
> Running Python 2.2
>
>