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On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Sandro Mani <manisan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I wanted to execute sane.get_devices in a separate thread, i.e. consider the > following program: > > #!/usr/bin/env python > # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- > > import threading > import sane > import time > > devices=None > > class GetDevicesThread(threading.Thread): > def __init__(self): > threading.Thread.__init__(self) > self.setDaemon(True) > > def run(self): > global devices > #time.sleep(10) > #devices=[] > devices=sane.get_devices() > > sane.init() > GetDevicesThread().start() > print "Detecting devices" > while devices==None: > time.sleep(1) > print "." > print devices > > The devices=sane.get_devices() call in run() for some reason pauses the main > thread during it's execution - if I switch the statement with the two > commented lines above, all works as expected. Is there any particular reason > for this behaviour? > Thanks > Sandro Mani > _______________________________________________ > Image-SIG maillist - image-...@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/image-sig > _______________________________________________ Image-SIG maillist - Image-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/image-sig
