MainThread blocks all others

[Nodir Gulyamov]

Tried to rewrite using Event() just as experiment, but unfortunately 
MainThread will blocking all others.
Code below:

import threading

class class1:
    def __init__(self):
        self.myEvent = threading.Event()
        result = doSomeJob()

    def increaseCounter(self):
        self.myEvent.set()

    doSomeJob(self):
        ##### BLOCKING HERE ###
        if not self.myEvent.isSet():
            self.myEvent.wait()
        self.myEvent.clear()
        # ... continue...

# this class subscribed to some observer which implements thread
class monitor:
    def __init__(self, klass):
        #do some init
        self.c = klass
    def update(self):
        self.c.increaseCounter()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    cl1 = class1()
    m = monitor(cl1)
    mo = MonitorObserver(m)

Observer realized as described in Thinking in Python, Bruce Eckel 
http://mindview.net/Books/TIPython

Does anybody have any idea? Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks in advance to ALL!

Best regards,
/Gelios

"Nodir Gulyamov" <gelios at rbcmail.ru> wrote in message 
news:42f9d4ef_2 at news.isis.de...
> Hi Bryan,
>    Thanks for your reply.
> I tried to test your solution, but it doesn't work, hence 
> threading.Semaphore object hasn't method to get value of semaphore.
> I looked to source code of semaphore.py and find out that value is private 
> variable.
>
> Best regards,
> /Gelios
>
> "Bryan Olson" <fakeaddress at nowhere.org> wrote in message 
> news:fRaKe.3656$zr1.2646 at newssvr13.news.prodigy.com...
>>I  wrote:
>> > Make self.counter a semaphore. Untested code:
>>
>> A little clean-up. Still untested:
>>
>> import threading
>>
>> class class1:
>>     def __init__(self):
>>         self.counter = threading.semaphore(0)
>>         result = self.doSomeJob()
>>
>>     def increaseCounter(self):
>>         self.counter.release()
>>
>>     def doSomeJob(self):
>>         # Busy-waiting sucks.
>>         # while counter != 1:
>>         #    pass
>>         self.counter.acquire()
>>         # ... continue...
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> --Bryan
>
>