I tried using that as well. The problem is, the thread becomes dead as soon as it executes the invocation of command prompt.
I want the thread to be alive till I go and manually close the command prompt. -Vijay Swaminathan. On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Andrea Crotti <andrea.crott...@gmail.com>wrote: > vijay swaminathan <swavi...@gmail.com> writes: > > > Hi All, > > > > I'm new bie to python thread programming and would like to assistance > > on the attached code. > > > > In this, I'm calling a thread to invoke a command prompt and would > > like to print the "Thread as alive" as long as the command prompt is > > opened and would like to print "Thread is Dead" only when the command > > prompt is closed by the user. > > > > based on my understand I have written this peace of code which does > > not seem to work. There is some flaw in the logic which I could not > > understand since I'm not that familiar with the thread concepts. > > > > Can somebody help me in getting this piece of code working. > > > > Also can somebody point me to a good tutorial on understanding python > > thread programming since I want to get my understanding on the concept > > of thread better. I googled a few but quite confusing. > > > > -- > > Vijay Swaminathan > > Easy mistake, this: > if mythread_object.is_alive: > > is wrong, since is_alive is a method, not a bool so it should be > is_alive(). > > Pay attention to these things, and actually something called > "is_adjective" is almost never a variable. > -- Vijay Swaminathan
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