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To: vijay swaminathan <swavijay@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Need Assistance on this program.
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vijay swaminathan <swavijay@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi All,
>
> I'm new bie to python thread programming and would like to assistance
> on the attached code.
>
> In this, I'm calling a thread to invoke a command prompt and would
> like to print the "Thread as alive" as long as the command prompt is
> opened and would like to print "Thread is Dead" only when the command
> prompt is closed by the user.
>
> based on my understand I have written this peace of code which does
> not seem to work. There is some flaw in the logic which I could not
> understand since I'm not that familiar with the thread concepts.
>
> Can somebody help me in getting this piece of code working.
>
> Also can somebody point me to a good tutorial on understanding python
> thread programming since I want to get my understanding on the concept
> of thread better. I googled a few but quite confusing.
>
> -- 
> Vijay Swaminathan

Easy mistake, this:
  if mythread_object.is_alive:

is wrong, since is_alive is a method, not a bool so it should be
is_alive().

Pay attention to these things, and actually something called
"is_adjective" is almost never a variable.