On Feb 21, 4:12 pm, mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 20 Feb 2007 20:47:57 -0800, placid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Feb 21, 3:08 pm, mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Right now I have a thread that sleeps for sometime and check if an
> > > event has happened and go back to sleep. Now instead I want the thread
> > > to sleep until the event has occured process the event and go back to
> > > sleep
>
> > > class eventhndler(threading.Thread):
> > > def __init__(self):
> > > threading.Thread.__init__(self)
> > > def run(self):
> > > while True:
> > > time.sleep(SLEEPTIME)
> > > ''''do event stuff'''
>
> > The way i would do this is by using an threading.Event (
> >http://docs.python.org/lib/event-objects.html)
>
> > <code>
>
> > class eventhandler(threading.Thread):
> > def __init__(self):
> > threading.Thread.__init__(self)
> > self.event = threading.Event()
> > def run:
> > while True:
> > # block until some event happens
> > self.event.wait()
> > """ do stuff here """
> > self.event.clear()
> > </code>
>
> > the way to use this is to get the main/separate thread to set() the
> > event object.
>
> Can you give an example of how to get the main threead to set teh event
> object?
> this is exactly what i wanted to do!
> thanks a lot!
> mark
To set the event object
<code>
if __name__ == "__main__":
evtHandlerThread = eventhandler()
evtHandler.start()
# do something here #
evtHandler.event.set()
# do more stuff here #
evtHandler.event.set()
</code>
Hope thats what your looking for.
Cheers
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