Idle wait for outstanding threads?

[Erno Kuusela]

In article <f72dac0d.0201300518.35860565 at posting.google.com>,
alanmk at hotmail.com (Alan Kennedy) writes:

| Greetings All,
| I'm trying to figure out how to do an idle wait while waiting for a
| number of threads to finish. The scenario is as follows.

| From a main thread, I start a number of threads to execute some
| service, say some database queries. I want the main thread to wait
| until all of the service threads are complete before continuing.

how about:

for t in service_threads:
    t.join()

  -- erno