Checking on a thread / remove from list

Question

I have a thread which extends Thread. The code looks a little like this;

class MyThread(Thread):
    def run(self):
        # Do stuff

my_threads = []
while         


        

Answer 1

Better way is to use Queue class: http://docs.python.org/library/queue.html

Look at the good example code in the bottom of documentation page:

def worker():
    while True:
        item = q.get()
        do_work(item)
        q.task_done()

q = Queue()
for i in range(num_worker_threads):
     t = Thread(target=worker)
     t.daemon = True
     t.start()

for item in source():
    q.put(item)

q.join()       # block until all tasks are done