[python-win32] Threading Issue

[Jim Vickroy]

James Matthews wrote:
> Thanks Emlyn
>
> Just one more issue i have here. When i pass a string as an argument 
> to the thread it seems to call the method returning the string as a 
> tuple and i get an error that the method gets 48 arguments and it can 
> only accept 2?
>
> If this doesn't make sense here is the code.
>
> for links in urls:
>             links_thread = 
> threading.Thread(target=self.next_page_finder,args=links) # Links is a 
> string
that argument (i.e., links) is expected to be a python tuple so what you 
need is:
    links_thread = 
threading.Thread(target=self.next_page_finder,args=(links,))

>             threaded_objects.append(links_thread)
> I get this error:
> Exception in thread Thread-1:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "C:\Python25\lib\threading.py", line 460, in __bootstrap
>     self.run()
>   File "C:\Python25\lib\threading.py", line 440, in run
>     self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs)
> TypeError: next_page_finder() takes exactly 2 arguments (48 given)
>
> Thanks
>
> James
>
>
> On 7/3/07, * Emlyn Jones* <emlynj at gmail.com <mailto:emlynj at gmail.com>> 
> wrote:
>
>     On 7/3/07, Emlyn Jones <emlynj at gmail.com
>     <mailto:emlynj at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     > On 7/3/07, Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com <mailto:timr at probo.com>>
>     wrote:
>     > James Matthews wrote:
>     > > > So i need to make the list a global variable
>     > >
>     > > No, that's not what he did at all.  The names just happened to
>     be the
>     > > same, that's all.  Consider it this way:
>     > >
>     > >     import threading
>     > >     def foo( threadresult ):
>     > >         threadresult.extend( range(4) )
>     > >
>     > >     result = list()
>     > >     thread = threading.Thread (target=foo, args=(result,))
>     > >     thread.start()
>     > >     result
>     > >
>
>     How about using an object derived from Thread and making 'result' a
>     member of it?
>
>     http://docs.python.org/lib/thread-objects.html
>
>     You'd probably also want a variable to tell you if the function
>     has finished.
>
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