[Python-Dev] Threading in the Standard Library Tour Part II (original) (raw)

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Mon Aug 16 23:19:07 CEST 2004

On Mon, Aug 16, 2004, Bob Ippolito wrote:

On Aug 15, 2004, at 11:59 PM, Aahz wrote:

On Sun, Aug 15, 2004, Bob Ippolito wrote:

Many platform GUIs require that all or most all GUI activities be consolidated to one and only one thread. I don't think any of them 'care' if another thread is also running, but it can't communicate directly with the GUI. That's true, but it also applies to other external resources, such as files. Maybe I don't understand what you're saying.. but I don't know any platform that forces you to work with files from one and only one specific thread. But I definitely do know at least one platform where you may only perform most GUI operations from the main thread of execution.

For any one file handle, you use only one thread. It just happens in the case of GUIs that there is only one GUI handle.

Aahz (aahz at pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/

"To me vi is Zen. To use vi is to practice zen. Every command is a koan. Profound to the user, unintelligible to the uninitiated. You discover truth everytime you use it." --reddy at lion.austin.ibm.com

More information about the Python-Dev mailing list