subclassing Thread and start

[Gonçalo Rodrigues]

On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 14:39:24 GMT, "Steve Holden"
<sholden at holdenweb.com> wrote:

>Note that the threading module is the one you should use for threads in your
>program, the thread module is rather lower-level and therefore rather more
>error prone.
>
>Your MyThread class could look like this"
>
>    class MyThread(threading.Thread):
>        def start(self):
>            threading.Thread.start(self)
>            self.id = id(self)

But it is right here that the gist is. I do not want id(self) but the
id returned by the underlying low level thread wrapped by
threading.Thread.

>            return self.id
>
>If you *must* use the thread module, remember that although the
>documentation says that you shouldn't *override* start(), that doesn't mean
>you can't *extend* it. So, similar to the example aboce, you should make
>sure that your thread's start_new_thread() method calls the base class'
>start_net_thread() before running any of its own code.
>
>As a general rule, you should try not to assume any knowedge of the insides
>of the class you are using. Hope this helps.

It does, thanks. In particular, it is making aware that I am making
things more complicated for myself by insisting on having the id
returned by the low level thread. Need to think more on this.

>
>regards

With my best regards,
G. Rodrigues