[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > This function just wants X out of the list. It doesn't matter if this > happens before, during, or after something else; so long as it happens.
If you're asking in a general way how to do something like that, there are several basic methods: 1. Put a single thread in charge of the list, and communicate with it by message passing through Queues. To get X out of the list, you'd send the mutator thread a message asking for removal. The mutator thread would loop reading and processing messages from the queue, blocking when no requests are pending. This is sort of the preferred Python style and is pretty simple to get correct, but if there are many such objects you can end up with more threads than you really want. 2. Associate a lock with the list. Anything wanting to access the list should acquire the lock, do its stuff, then release the lock. This gets confusing after a while. 3. Various other schemes involving finer grained locks etc. that get horrendously error prone (race conditions etc). There is probably a good tutorial somewhere about programming with threads. It's sometimes a tricky subject, so it's worth taking the time to study various approaches rather than re-inventing the wheeel. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
