Interesting Thread Gotcha

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Hendrik van Rooyen wrote:

> "Dan" <the,,,ail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> >>> keyboard_thread = thread.start_new_thread(kbd_driver (port_q,kbd_q))
>> 
>> Needs to be
>> >>> keyboard_thread = thread.start_new_thread(kbd_driver, (port_q,kbd_q))
>> 
>> Commas are important!
>> 
>> -Dan
> 
> Absolutely! - well spotted!
> 
> As the first correct respondent, you win the freedom to spend a week in
> Naboomspruit at your own expense.
> 
> It would have been nice, however, to have gotten something like:
> 
> TypeError - This routine needs a tuple.
> 
> instead of the silent in line calling of the routine in question,
> while failing actually to start a new thread.

You can't prevent the silent inline-calling - otherwise, how would you do
this:

def compute_thread_target():
    def target():
        pass
    return target

thread.start_new_thread(compute_thread_target())


Of course start_new_thread could throw an error if it got nothing callable
as first argument. No idea why it doesn't.

Diez