Thread stops!!

[Steve]

Yup that's what it's doing. I don't have a class though but I have a 
function where it does a :


while 1:
	doSoemthing()
	sleep(X)


Is that a problem? Please help! Thanks


Steve



Phil Hornby wrote:
> Steve,
> 
> 
>>>I have a multithreaded python script that collects some data
>>>periodically and populates it into a database. For some reason, one of
>>>the thread keeps stopping after running for some while and there's no
>>>failure or any other sign of failure. What can possibly be going wrong?
>>>how can I track this? Is there someway I can find out if ony of the
>>>thread stopped? Please help!!
> 
> 
> A code snippet might help??
> 
> How are you controlling the thread?
> 
> If you are doing something periodically is it something like:
> 
> class myThread(threading.Thread):
> 
> 	def run():
> 
> 		while 1:
> 			#do something
> 			self.dosomething()
> 
> 			sleep(x)
> 
> Is your thread stopping or just 'finishing'? i.e. is the run method getting
> to the end?
> 
> I don't know what environment you are running it in but if you are able to
> see the stdout you could add a simple print statement as the last thing in
> the function to see if it gets there...if so then the problem is in your
> control code, e.g. the events you wait for or the flags you act on.
> 
> HTH
> 
> --
> Phil
> 
> "Requirements - what are they I just hack something together that does what
> I think they want" ;)
> 
>