Threading HowTo's in Windows platforms

[LittlePython]

Well, I guess you have sold me on this. I will wait till I have grown up to
be a big and wise python (who is still employed) and all my growing
(scripting) scares have healed properly or maybe even forgotten by my
employers.

Thx

"Jezzz ... What could possible go wrong!"
Signed,
Mr. DoRight


"Scott David Daniels" <scott.daniels at acm.org> wrote in message
news:44a6b763$1 at nntp0.pdx.net...
> Jean-Paul Calderone wrote:
> > On Sat, 01 Jul 2006 16:36:02 GMT, LittlePython <littlepython at lost.com>
> > wrote:
> >> I am looking for some good beginner how-to links and maybe some simple
> >> example scripts that perform threading on windows platforms. Hopefully
> >> authors who don't mind doing "a little spoon feeding" would be great
> >> as I am a "baby python" who is very green with threading....
> >
> > Threaded programming is extremely difficult.  Most good newbie
> > introductions to it consist of warnings not to use it.
>
> Just to expand on this reply -- even experts avoid threading unless
> necessary.  The real reason that everyone hates threading is that
> wrong programs can run correctly, and errors cannot be reproduced.
> Apparently, threaded programs have a "demo detector" that makes them
> go wrong in the presence of anything more than a single vice president
> (or major customer).
>
> So, the standard Python advice is to have each thread completely
> independent (sharing no data), and communicating only with instances
> of queue.Queue.  That keeps the "demo detector" in check, because
> you then have individually predictable (and hopefully testable)
> parts with a logable communication pattern.  You still may have
> trouble (to which the best reply is, "See, we told you so.").
>
> --Scott David Daniels
> scott.daniels at acm.org