Accessing thread variables

[Stuart Bishop]

On Wednesday, February 19, 2003, at 09:21  PM, Lukas Kubin wrote:

> What's the best way to access a thread's variable?
> Let's say I have thread:
>
> class MyThread(threading.Thread):
>   def __init__(self):
>     threading.Thread.__init__(self)
>     self.varToReturn = ""
>     self.start()
>
>   def run(self):
>     self.varToReturn = myAction()
>
>   def myAction():
>     string = "hello"
>     return string
>
> And I call the thread:
>
> i = MyThread()
> print i.varToReturn
>
> This returns nothing (the empty string) instead of "hello".
> What am I doing bad?

i = MyThread()
i.join() # Wait for the thread to finish
print i.varToReturn

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