How to run functions in the background?

[Ognjen Bezanov]

Terry Reedy wrote:

>"Ognjen Bezanov" <ognjen at mailshack.com> wrote in message 
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>>I need to find a way to 'fork' a function into the background yet still
>>be able to send commands to it.
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>Others gave you the answer to this..
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>>I am writing a media player, and I have a function which plays the
>>media. I want to be able to run this function but to (at the same time)
>>be able to send commands from it (e.g. pause, play etc...)
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>But for this, you might look into PyGame, which, I believe, has functions 
>like this.
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>Terry J. Reedy
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I had a look into this, but have decided on pymedia, which was more
focused on well... media.

Either way thanks all of you, I have written my first threaded program,
and it does what I need it to perfectly.

The only thing i have a problem with now is how to communicate with the
thread, I need to send commands such as "play","pause" and the like to
it. someone here mentioned queues, but searching the python
documentation only have me a description of the queue object.

Is there anywhere where I can find out about queues, for people who know
python but have not had a lot of experience with threaded programs? Cheers