Passing an argument when starting new QThread() in PyQt

Question

I have a multi-threaded application written in Python in which one thread \"takes care\" of the GUI, and the other is the worker thread. However, the worker thread has two m

Answer 1

Eli Bendersky's answer is correct, however the order of arguments appears wrong.

If you call the Worker class like this:

The argument order that worked for me:

def __init__(self, parent=None, do_create_data=True):  

The order shown in Eli Bendersky's answer produced this error message for me:

TypeError: QThread(QObject parent=None): argument 1 has unexpected type 'str'

Not sure why, but I'm sure someone can help explain.