threads module question

[Thomas Wouters]

On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 08:14:56AM -0700, Daley, Mark W wrote:
> My apologies about the script, I was giving bits and pieces in an attempt to
> give the general idea without bogging down in details.  At any rate, when I
> change

> 	thread.start_new_thread(main.showvalues(), <What goes here?>)
> to
> 	thread.start_new_thread(main.showvalues)

>   File "C:\Python\gui.py", line 47, in interact
>     thread.start_new_thread(main.showvalues)
> TypeError: function requires at least 2 arguments; 1 given

That's my fault, sorry. If you want to pass no arguments, you have to give a
single argument to start_new_thread: an empty tuple. So if you change your
call to 

    thread.start_new_thread(main.showvalues, ())

it should *really* work :-) Sorry for the confusion.

-- 
Thomas Wouters <thomas at xs4all.net>

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