Python Threads

[Sick Monkey]

Well if this cannot be done, can a thread call a function in the main
method?
I have been trying and have not been successive.  Perhaps I am using thread
incorrectly.

On 2/18/07, Sick Monkey <sickcodemonkey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Is there anyway to get 2 python threads to talk to one another?
>
> I have a GUI which is spawning a thread to make a large calculation (that
> way the GUI does not appear to be non responsive).  I am trying to attach a
> progress bar to the threaded action.  As the thread is calculating data, I
> would like it to communicate with the other (progress) thread to update it.
>
> On windows, when I spawn the progress bar without using threads, the
> progress bar stalls....  <<this does not happen on linux.>>  So I thought by
> spawning the progress bar by using a thread, it would not stall.......  If
> anyone can think of another technique.... I am all ears.
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~START SAMPLE~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> def progressBar(status):
>     mroot = Tkinter.Tk(className='Worker Bee')
>     metric = Meter(mroot, relief='ridge', bd=3)
>     metric.pack(fill='x')
>     metric.set(status, 'Starting ...')
>
> def fetchFiles(file1,file2,file3):
>    method = ''
>    print file1
>    print file2
>    print file3
>    f1 = fopen(file1)
>    a = f1.readlines(); f1.close()
>    d1 = {}
>    for c in a:
>       for m in mailsrch.findall(c):
>          d1[m.lower()] = None
>
>    ####I Would like to  Update the progress bar running in the other
> thread here.
>    ## set status = .33 and update progress bar.
>    if file2 == '':
>       domain(d1,file3)
> #...
>
> def startProc():
>       status = 0
>       thread.start_new_thread(fetchFiles, (f1name,f2name,f3name,))
>       thread.start_new_thread(progressBar, (status,))
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~END SAMPLE~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
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