[Tutor] quick question about threads

[nephish]

all i needed to know, thanks very much 
shawn


On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 21:53 -0500, Kent Johnson wrote:
> nephish wrote:
> > Hey there, i have a program written in python that uses four threads
> > that run all at the same time. Now i want to add a new thread with the
> > same basic structure (threading.thread) that will run only when needed.
> > This one will not run in a loop, it will just run once and quit.
> > So, i may need this to be running several times at once because it will
> > have a 15 second delay written into it.
> > My question is, after the script is done, will it be safe ? i mean, over
> > the course of a few days, it may run this thing a few hundred times. if
> > it is simple like this
> > 
> > threading.thread
> > 	print 'here is something to say'
> > 	time.sleep(15)
> > 	print 'here is something else'
> > 
> > do i need to include a special command to kill the thread, or will it
> > just finish and everything will be ok then ?
> 
> Assuming you are showing the run() method of your thread above, it 
> should be fine. If the run() method exits the thread terminates and you 
> don't have to worry about it any more. Make sure you don't keep any 
> references to the threads so they can be garbage-collected.
> 
> Kent
> 
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