threads only called once?

[Gerson Kurz]

On Tue, 06 Aug 2002 13:51:00 GMT, "Ian McMeans" <imcmeans at telus.net>
wrote:

>Why can't the thread be started again if it's not alive (ie not running)? Am
>I missing something here?

I run into that, too, and I felt its pretty stupid. (Why! this
limitation. It can't be just because the documentation says "at most
once", it has to have a technical reason). I'm using something like
the following now always:

>>> import threading
>>> class test(threading.Thread):
... 	def run(self):
... 		print "run called"
... 		
>>> t = test()
>>> threading.Thread( target = t.run ).start()
run called
>>> threading.Thread( target = t.run ).start()
run called
>>> threading.Thread( target = t.run ).start()
run called
>>> ...