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On 22.08.2013 00:50, Fábio Santos wrote:

>>> That said, there is never a need for deriving
>>> from the Thread class, you can also use it to run a function without
>>> that. That way is IMHO clearer because the threading.Thread instance is
>>> not the thread, just like a File instance is not a file. Both just
>>> represent handles for manipulating the actual thing.
>>
>> Huh? That I find most curious.
>>
>> I *always* derive from threading.Thread and really like the way that
>> thread setup works (instanciate Thread handle, call start). Very
>> intuitive, never had the problems with clarity that you mentioned. Could
>> you elaborate on your suggestion? I don't seem to quite get it I'm afraid.
>>
> I cannot tell whether you are trolling or are just new to this,

Neither!

> but you
> don't always have to use threads.

Obviously, I meant "I always derive from threading.Thread when I need to
work with a thread". Thought this was blatantly obvious.

That said, I think I also grossly misunderstood Ulrichs posting. He was
talking about there no need deriving from threading.Thread when you
don't need threads.

What I understood was that, in order to use Threads, you could also just
pass a closure to some static function of threading in order to fire up
a thread. That may or may not be true. However, I find deriving from
Thread, instanciating an object and firing up the thread by using
".start()" much more intuitive.

Hope that clears it all up.

Best regards,
Johannes

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  Re: Basic Python Query Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2013-08-21 08:19 +0000
  Re: Basic Python Query Ulrich Eckhardt <ulrich.eckhardt@dominolaser.com> - 2013-08-21 11:11 +0200
    Re: Basic Python Query Johannes Bauer <dfnsonfsduifb@gmx.de> - 2013-08-21 20:58 +0200
      Re: Basic Python Query Fábio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com> - 2013-08-21 23:50 +0100
        Re: Basic Python Query Johannes Bauer <dfnsonfsduifb@gmx.de> - 2013-08-22 10:49 +0200
      Re: Basic Python Query Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-08-21 20:06 -0400
        Re: Basic Python Query Bob Martin <bob.martin@excite.com> - 2013-08-22 06:43 +0100
          Re: Basic Python Query Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-08-22 09:45 -0400
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        Re: Basic Python Query Johannes Bauer <dfnsonfsduifb@gmx.de> - 2013-08-22 10:50 +0200
      Re: Basic Python Query Fábio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com> - 2013-08-22 09:46 +0100
      Re: Basic Python Query Ulrich Eckhardt <ulrich.eckhardt@dominolaser.com> - 2013-08-22 13:54 +0200
        Re: Basic Python Query Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-08-23 03:28 +0000
          Re: Basic Python Query Ulrich Eckhardt <ulrich.eckhardt@dominolaser.com> - 2013-08-23 09:12 +0200
            Re: Basic Python Query Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-08-24 01:50 +1000

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