Threading / Queue management

[Steve Holden]

Power Button wrote:
> hi there,
> 
> I wonder if anyone can help with the following. I have written a
> script which polls a server and if it finds and pending orders, it
> instantiates an new object (foo) - in a new thread and processes some
> data. In the new object (foo), there are also some long running
> processes so I am trying to create a thread pool/queue and to push
> items onto the queue in the instantiated object (foo). Currently I am
> creating the Queue in foo but this means I am starting up 5 new
> threads every time I instantiate foo. What I want to be able to do is
> create the Queue and start 5 (n) threads when my program starts and
> then push items onto the queue in foo.
> 
> My question is, how can I create the Queue in my main object and set
> the target function for the Thread Constructor to be a function in
> foo?
> 
This might help.

http://www.chrisarndt.de/projects/threadpool/

If not, Google around for "Python threadpool". If that doesn't help
either, come back to the list.

regards
 Steve
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