Strange Threads Behaviour...

[Diez B. Roggisch]

> I have written an application which uses threads and the XMPP library -
> this is a library which supports the jabber instant messaging protocol.
> The application works fine when run from Idle, however I get thread
> errors when I try to run it as an EXE created with Py2Exe or when it is
> run within other editors such as SPE.
> 
> I need to ship the application to end users so any pointers on thread
> handling when creating shipping apps would be useful.
> 
> For reasons of confidentiality I cannot post all the source code,
> however the error log is below.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Best,
> 
> rod
> 
> update (server adddress deleted)
> Jabber Login Successful
> Greg forced SASL not to be used. Auhentication fails if it is used.
> Warning: unable to perform SASL auth os (serger address deleted). Old
> authentication method used!
> idname:
> glocopex executing
> Exception in thread Thread-1 (most likely raised during interpreter
> shutdown):
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "C:\Python23\lib\threading.py", line 442, in __bootstrap
>  File "I:\My Documents\pyscripts\Newclient\newclient.py", line 368, in
> run
>  File "I:\My Documents\pyscripts\Newclient\newclient.py", line 404, in
> GoOn
>  File "I:\My Documents\pyscripts\Newclient\newclient.py", line 399, in
> StepOn
>  File "C:\Python23\lib\site-packages\xmpp\dispatcher.py", line 116, in
> Process
>  File "C:\Python23\lib\site-packages\xmpp\transports.py", line 101, in
> receive
> Script terminated.

I got errors in this style when shutting down a multi-threaded app. Does
this appear by any chance when quitting your client? Then you can ignore
it.

diez