On Fri, Nov 11, 2011, Peter Fein wrote: > > Should we just establish "Threads: you're doing it wrong" as a ground > rule and be done with it? ;-P
No. I know you're trolling and trying to be humorous about it, so I'll respond seriously: One case where a thread is the perfect mechanism is when you want to poll for a particular condition periodically. For example, if you're synchronizing files between machines, but you don't want to sync open files, you put the open files into a list that a thread monitors. -- Aahz ([email protected]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ WiFi is the SCSI of the 21st Century -- there are fundamental technical reasons for sacrificing a goat. (with no apologies to John Woods) _______________________________________________ concurrency-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/concurrency-sig
