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Hi,
I'm searching for a smooth way to call a certain function when a
thread has finished its job.
I guess I can keep calling isAlive() in a loop and call my function
when it returns False but it's not very elegant.
Actually I'm a bit surprised it doesn't exists an "atexit" function.
Something like:

import threading, time

def myfun():
time.sleep(1)
print "hello"

def cleanup():
print "thread finished, starting cleanup operations..."

t = threading.Thread(target=myfun)
t.atexit(target=cleanup)
t.start()


Is there a reason why there's no such thing in the threading module?


--- Giampaolo
http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/

On May 7, 6:12*pm, "Giampaolo Rodola'" <gne...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm searching for a smooth way to call a certain function when a
> thread has finished its job.
> I guess I can keep calling isAlive() in a loop and call my function
> when it returns False but it's not very elegant.
> Actually I'm a bit surprised it doesn't exists an "atexit" function.
> Something like:
>
> import threading, time
>
> def myfun():
> * * time.sleep(1)
> * * print "hello"
>
> def cleanup():
> * * print "thread finished, starting cleanup operations..."
>
> t = threading.Thread(target=myfun)
> t.atexit(target=cleanup)
> t.start()
>
> Is there a reason why there's no such thing in the threading module?

You can define your target function to clean up on exit. Using your
definitions of myfun and cleanup,

def mycleanfun():
try:
myfun()
finally:
cleanup()

t = threading.Thread(target=mycleanfun)
t.start()


Carl Banks

On 8 Mag, 03:33, Carl Banks <pavlovevide...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 7, 6:12*pm, "Giampaolo Rodola'" <gne...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > Hi,
> > I'm searching for a smooth way to call a certain function when a
> > thread has finished its job.
> > I guess I can keep calling isAlive() in a loop and call my function
> > when it returns False but it's not very elegant.
> > Actually I'm a bit surprised it doesn't exists an "atexit" function.
> > Something like:
>
> > import threading, time
>
> > def myfun():
> > * * time.sleep(1)
> > * * print "hello"
>
> > def cleanup():
> > * * print "thread finished, starting cleanup operations..."
>
> > t = threading.Thread(target=myfun)
> > t.atexit(target=cleanup)
> > t.start()
>
> > Is there a reason why there's no such thing in the threading module?
>
> You can define your target function to clean up on exit. *Using your
> definitions of myfun and cleanup,
>
> def mycleanfun():
> * * try:
> * * * * myfun()
> * * finally:
> * * * * cleanup()
>
> t = threading.Thread(target=mycleanfun)
> t.start()
>
> Carl Banks

Yes, I know. I was wondering if it could be a good idea proposing
something like an atexit() function to be included in threading
module.


--- Giampaolo
http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib
http://code.google.com/p/psutil