Threading and Windows.

[Peter Abel]

Jorge Godoy <godoy at metalab.unc.edu> wrote in message news:<m3smmfu7m7.fsf at ieee.org>...
> Hi!
> 
> 
> I must have been searching in the wrong places or with the wrong
> keywords but I couldn't find out how to implement something such as
> what is done by the threading module on Windows (95, 98 and XP are the
> ones used by my clients). My preference is for something available in
> the standard library if possible.
> 
> I have a simple task where I want my GUI to be able to open several
> applications simultaneously. Using the threading module everything
> works perfectly on Linux but the program won't run on Windows.
> 
> 
> Any hints on what should I do? 
> 
> The working code is really simple and is all what I need on both
> platforms (pseudo-code follows):
> 
> 
> import threading
> (...)
> 
> class MyApplication(...):
> (...)
>      def someMethod(...):
>          (...)
>          def temporaryFunction():
>              os.spawnv('P_NOWAIT', 'another.py', ['another.py', parameters])
>          thread = threading.Thread(target = temporaryFunction)
>          thread.start()
>      
> 
>      def anotherMethod(...):
>          (...)
>          def temporaryFunction():
>              os.spawnv('P_NOWAIT', 'yetanother.py', ['yetanother.py', parameters])
>          thread = threading.Thread(target = temporaryFunction)
>          thread.start()
> 
> 
> and so on.
> 
> (Yes, I could factor 'temporaryFunction' and reduce 5 lines of code in
> my application, but I still don't know what will be necessary to do to
> make it work on Windows, so I left it as is and factor it later.)
> 
> 
> Any hints on how to accomplish that in a portable way? Or what
> additional code will I have to use to make it work in Windows?
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance,

http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/os-process.html says
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spawnl(mode, path, ...) 
spawnle(mode, path, ..., env) 
spawnlp(mode, file, ...) 
spawnlpe(mode, file, ..., env) 
spawnv(mode, path, args) 
spawnve(mode, path, args, env) 
spawnvp(mode, file, args) 
spawnvpe(mode, file, args, env) 
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Availability: Unix, Windows. spawnlp(), spawnlpe(), spawnvp() and
spawnvpe() are not available on Windows. New in version 1.6.
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Regards
Peter