Threading change, 2.5.4 -> 2.6.1

Gib Bogle g.bogle at auckland.no.spam.ac.nz
Thu Jan 7 17:30:53 EST 2010


The code below runs with Python 2.5.4, but gives the following error messages 
with Python 2.6.1.  What needs to be done to make it work?  Thanks.

C:\Summer09\Tutorials>python url_queue.pyw
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "url_queue.pyw", line 3, in <module>
import threading
File "C:\Summer09\Tutorials\threading.py", line 9, in <module>
class ProcessingThread(threading.Thread, QtCore.QObject):
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'Thread'


url_queue.py
------------

#!/usr/bin/env python
import Queue
import threading
import urllib2
import time

hosts = ["http://yahoo.com", "http://google.com", "http://amazon.com", 
"http://ibm.com", "http://apple.com"]

queue = Queue.Queue()

class ThreadUrl(threading.Thread):
#"""Threaded Url Grab"""
   def __init__(self, queue,i):
     threading.Thread.__init__(self)
     self.queue = queue
     self.num = i
     print "Thread: ",self.num

   def run(self):
     while True:
       #grabs host from queue
       host = self.queue.get()
       print "num, host: ",self.num,host
       #grabs urls of hosts and prints first 1024 bytes of page
       url = urllib2.urlopen(host)
       print url.read(1024)

       #signals to queue job is done
       self.queue.task_done()

start = time.time()
def main():

   #spawn a pool of threads, and pass them queue instance
   for i in range(5):
     t = ThreadUrl(queue,i)
     t.setDaemon(True)
     t.start()

   #populate queue with data
   for host in hosts:
     queue.put(host)

  #wait on the queue until everything has been processed
     queue.join()

main()
print "Elapsed Time: %s" % (time.time() - start)



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