Rhodri James wrote: > On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:21:23 -0000, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > >> r0g wrote: >> >>> The trick to threads is to create a subclass of threading.Thread, define >>> the 'run' function and call the 'start()' method. I find threading quite >>> generally useful so I created this simple generic function for running >>> things in threads... >> >> Great idea. Thanks for posting this. >> >>> def run_in_thread( func, func_args=[], callback=None, >>> callback_args=[] ): > > I'm might wary of having mutable defaults for parameters. They make for > the most annoying errors. Even though they're actually safe here, I'd > still write: > > def run_in_thread(func, func_args=(), callback=None, callback_args=()): > > out of sheer paranoia. > >
Excellent point, thanks :) I'm starting to suspect this is the highest quality group in all of usenet! Roger. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
