many_years_after wrote: > Hi, pythoners: > > There is a problem I couldn't dispose. I start a thread in the my > program. The thread will do something before executing time.sleep(). > When the user give a signal to the main thread (such as click the 'end' > button or close the window), the thread should end it's running. But > how to end the threading when it's sleeping? I set an flag to the > thread, but it doesn't work. > > I also thought to put 'time.sleep()' to the main thread. But I > think the main thread will not response to user's action because it is > executing sleep(). > > Any ideas? > Thanks.
The thread should not "sleep" - just take short "cat naps". The main should then set some kind of counter, and the thread check the counter between naps... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
