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Re: Why doesn't threading.join() return a value?

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In article <roy-030914.19162802092011@news.panix.com>
Roy Smith  <roy@panix.com> wrote:
>Thread.join() currently returns None, so there's 
>no chance for [return value] confusion.

Well, still some actually.  If you use my example code (posted
elsethread), you need to know:

  - that there was a target function (my default return
    value if there is none is None); and
  - that the joined thread really did finish (if you pass
    a timeout value, rather than None, and the join times
    out, the return value is again None).

Of course, if your target function always exists and never returns
None, *then* there's no chance for confusion. :-)
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Why doesn't threading.join() return a value? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2011-09-02 07:53 -0700
  Re: Why doesn't threading.join() return a value? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-09-03 01:45 +1000
    Re: Why doesn't threading.join() return a value? Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> - 2011-09-02 16:42 +0000
      Re: Why doesn't threading.join() return a value? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-09-03 06:49 +1000
  Re: Why doesn't threading.join() return a value? Adam Skutt <askutt@gmail.com> - 2011-09-02 11:01 -0700
    Re: Why doesn't threading.join() return a value? Alain Ketterlin <alain@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> - 2011-09-02 20:23 +0200
      Re: Why doesn't threading.join() return a value? Adam Skutt <askutt@gmail.com> - 2011-09-02 11:53 -0700
        Re: Why doesn't threading.join() return a value? Chris Torek <nospam@torek.net> - 2011-09-02 20:14 +0000
          Re: Why doesn't threading.join() return a value? Adam Skutt <askutt@gmail.com> - 2011-09-02 15:02 -0700
          Re: Why doesn't threading.join() return a value? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2011-09-03 12:51 -0400
        Re: Why doesn't threading.join() return a value? Alain Ketterlin <alain@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> - 2011-09-03 10:33 +0200
          Re: Why doesn't threading.join() return a value? Alain Ketterlin <alain@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> - 2011-09-03 11:00 +0200
        Re: Why doesn't threading.join() return a value? Carl Banks <pavlovevidence@gmail.com> - 2011-09-03 05:27 -0700
    Re: Why doesn't threading.join() return a value? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2011-09-02 19:16 -0400
      Re: Why doesn't threading.join() return a value? Chris Torek <nospam@torek.net> - 2011-09-03 01:04 +0000
    Re: Why doesn't threading.join() return a value? Carl Banks <pavlovevidence@gmail.com> - 2011-09-03 05:04 -0700

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