threaded code in IDLE

[Matt Leslie]

This code:

**************
import thread

def doprint(i):
print i

for i in range(0,100):
thread.start_ne w_thread(doprin t,(i,))
*************

Will run fine from the windows command line, but consistently
crashes IDLE on windows (it locks up with no error message)

Is this a known bug?

Is there a workaround?

Thanks,
Matt

[Kurt B. Kaiser]

Re: threaded code in IDLE

Matt Leslie <matthewleslie@ hotmail.com> writes:
[color=blue]
> This code:
>
> **************
> import thread
>
> def doprint(i):
> print i
>
> for i in range(0,100):
> thread.start_ne w_thread(doprin t,(i,))
> *************
>
> Will run fine from the windows command line, but consistently
> crashes IDLE on windows (it locks up with no error message)
>
> Is this a known bug?[/color]

Which IDLE? Which Python? Which Windows?

Works for me on Windows2000, Python 2.3.2, Idle 1.0


If I run a thousand threads IDLE uses over 64MB unless I add a little
delay in between spawning threads. Using the Python interpreter, not
IDLE, I can add a time.sleep(.000 0015) and get away with 10,000
threads piling up with output to print. IDLE needs more time, try .01
sec and watch your Task Monitor. (Though 100 threads isn't much of
a load....)

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KBK