No threading.start_new_thread(), useful addition?

[Ulrich Eckhardt]

sturlamolden wrote:
> On 8 Okt, 09:17, Ulrich Eckhardt <eckha... at satorlaser.com> wrote:
> 
>> I'm looking at the 'threading' module and see that other than the
>> 'thread' module it doesn't have a simple function to start a new thread.
>> Instead, you first have to instantiate a threading object and then start
>> the new thread on it:
>>
>> t = threading.Thread(target=my_function)
>> t.start()
> 
> One usually want to subclass threading.Thread instead of specifying a
> target function.

No. You also don't derive from a file class in order to read a file. The
point is that the Thread instance is not a thread but it is an object that
can be used to access a thread, similar to a File instance which file which
is not the file but just an object to access one.

I personally find it much cleaner this way. Also, why should any code care
in which thread it is executed? Why should I have to derive a class from
some other only because I want to run one of its functions in a separate
thread?

I don't want to start a discussion which principle is better, that would
only end in endless discussions, but I'd like to point out that the
principle of deriving from a thread class is not universally accepted. ;)

Cheers!

Uli

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