getting a thread out of sleep

[mark]

On 20 Feb 2007 20:47:57 -0800, placid <Bulkan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 21, 3:08 pm, mark <rkmr... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Right now I have a thread that  sleeps for sometime and check if an
> > event has happened and go back to sleep. Now instead I want the thread
> > to sleep until the event has occured process the event and go back to sleep
> >
> > class eventhndler(threading.Thread):
> >     def __init__(self):
> >         threading.Thread.__init__(self)
> >     def run(self):
> >         while True:
> >             time.sleep(SLEEPTIME)
> >             ''''do event stuff'''
>
> The way i would do this is by using an threading.Event (
> http://docs.python.org/lib/event-objects.html )
>
> <code>
>
> class eventhandler(threading.Thread):
>     def __init__(self):
>         threading.Thread.__init__(self)
>         self.event = threading.Event()
>     def run:
>         while True:
>             # block until some event happens
>             self.event.wait()
>             """ do stuff here """
>             self.event.clear()
> </code>
>
> the way to use this is to get the main/separate thread to set() the
> event object.
Can you give an example of how to get the main threead to set teh event object?
this is exactly what i wanted to do!
thanks a lot!
mark