[Tutor] knowing when a list is updated by a thread

[linuxian iandsd]

if i only wanted the last element ofthe list, i would  change the
"geoCode.getResults()' to return to me both the complete list & the new
elements in the list. it should be pretty easy from there. if what you need
is to sort the list & see whether a value have changed or not then you will
be better off working with dictionaries.



On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 6:26 AM, Vaibhav.bhawsar <whatpot at gmail.com> wrote:

> i have this code to print every new element in a list only when the list
> length changes (while the list is updated by a thread running elsewhere)...I
> was wondering if there is a pythonic way to do this? how does one know when
> there is a new element in the list?
>
> prevlength = 0
>     while geoCode.running:
>         places = geoCode.getResults() #returns a list with most up to date
> elements..the list grows as the thread that updates it
>         if len(places) > prevlength:
>             print places[prevlength]
>             prevlength = len(places)
>
>
> thank you!
>
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