returning a value from a thread

[Christopher T King]

On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Jeff Shannon wrote:

> Christopher T King wrote:
> 
> >Just don't forget to .join() on the thread in module1 before accessing the 
> >container object! (Assuming you're using threading) I just wish Python's 
> >.join() could return values, like pthread_join can.
> 
> This may work if the worker thread will perform a relatively short task 
> and then die *before* you access the result.  But lists and dictionaries 
> are not thread-safe -- if they are potentially accessed by multiple 
> threads concurrently, then the behavior will be unpredictable.

That's where the .join() comes in handy (it blocks until the thread dies) 
;)