If you happen to be using python 2.6, multiprocessing is your friend. http://docs.python.org/dev/library/multiprocessing.html
It is very easy to use and because it runs in a separate process, there is no global interpreter lock. Way, way, way better than threading for a lot of cases. If it crashes, the main program doesn't go down. Brian On 1/27/09 2:01 PM, "Matt Smith" <mel...@orangepalantir.org> wrote: In java they have the "SwingWorker" class and I thought of a way to implement something similar in python. Here is the code: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/101578/ I use this for starting long running processes. Here is an example of how I have used it. http://orangepalantir.org/files/threadworker.py I was curious for some input, It seems threads are often abused and I don't want to be doing too much abusing. mbs _______________________________________________ PyQt mailing list PyQt@riverbankcomputing.com http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt
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