threaded code in IDLE

[Matt Leslie]

This code:

**************
import thread

def doprint(i):
print i

for i in range(0,100):
thread.start_new_thread(doprint,(i,))
*************

Will run fine from the windows command line, but consistently
crashes IDLE on windows (it locks up with no error message)

Is this a known bug?

Is there a workaround?

Thanks,
Matt

 

[Kurt B. Kaiser]

This code:

**************
import thread

def doprint(i):
print i

for i in range(0,100):
thread.start_new_thread(doprint,(i,))
*************

Will run fine from the windows command line, but consistently
crashes IDLE on windows (it locks up with no error message)

Is this a known bug?

Which IDLE? Which Python? Which Windows?

Works for me on Windows2000, Python 2.3.2, Idle 1.0


If I run a thousand threads IDLE uses over 64MB unless I add a little
delay in between spawning threads. Using the Python interpreter, not
IDLE, I can add a time.sleep(.0000015) and get away with 10,000
threads piling up with output to print. IDLE needs more time, try .01
sec and watch your Task Monitor. (Though 100 threads isn't much of
a load....)