Hendrik van Rooyen wrote:
> "Dan" <the,,,ail.com> wrote:
>
>
>> >>> keyboard_thread = thread.start_new_thread(kbd_driver (port_q,kbd_q))
>>
>> Needs to be
>> >>> keyboard_thread = thread.start_new_thread(kbd_driver, (port_q,kbd_q))
>>
>> Commas are important!
>>
>> -Dan
>
> Absolutely! - well spotted!
>
> As the first correct respondent, you win the freedom to spend a week in
> Naboomspruit at your own expense.
>
> It would have been nice, however, to have gotten something like:
>
> TypeError - This routine needs a tuple.
>
> instead of the silent in line calling of the routine in question,
> while failing actually to start a new thread.
You can't prevent the silent inline-calling - otherwise, how would you do
this:
def compute_thread_target():
def target():
pass
return target
thread.start_new_thread(compute_thread_target())
Of course start_new_thread could throw an error if it got nothing callable
as first argument. No idea why it doesn't.
Diez
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