executing multiple functions in background simultaneously

[Catherine Moroney]

On Jan 14, 2009, at 5:20 PM, Jean-Paul Calderone wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:11:44 -0800, Catherine Moroney  
> <catherine.m.moroney at jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:
>> [snip]
>>>
>>> The easy thing is to use a Queue object. The background thread uses
>>> .put() to place a computed result on the QUeue and the caller uses
>>> .get() to read from the queue. There's an assortment of other  
>>> ways too.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>
>> Thank you for this hint.  This goes a long way to solving
>> my problem.
>>
>> One question - is there any way to name the objects that get
>> put on a queue?  For my application, it's important to know
>> which thread put a particular item on the queue.
>
> There's lots and lots of ways.  The simplest might be to put two- 
> tuples
> of the thread identifier and some other object.  eg
>
>    queue.put((threadID, obj))
>
> Perhaps you can accomplish your goal that way, or perhaps a minor
> variation would be more suitable.

I just came to that conclusion myself and a short test shows
that things are working.

Thanks to all who contributed to this discussion.  Even though I'm
by no means an expert, at least I can work with threads and queues
now!  I love this language ...

>
> Jean-Paul

Catherine