Do thread die?

[Sybren Stuvel]

Maurice LING enlightened us with:
> So, at the end of run(), what happens to the thread? Just die?

Yep.

> While I am on it, can threading.Thread.run() accept any parameters?

Nope. Pass them to the constructor and remember them.

> class myThread(threading.Thread):
>      def __init__(self, func):
>          self.func = func
>          threading.Thread.__init__(self)
>      def run(self):
>          print '%s function running' % self.func
>          self.func()

You don't need to do this, since you can pass a callable object to the
Thread constructor. Read the first lines of
http://docs.python.org/lib/thread-objects.html again. That would
change your code to:

class myClass:
     def __init__(self): pass
     def aFunc(self): pass
     def bFunc(self): pass

     def runAll(self):
         threading.Thread(self.aFunc).start()
         threading.Thread(self.bFunc).start()

Sybren
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