[Jython-users] Re: sleep() terminates thread?

[John M. <joh...@ya...>]

I'm able to avoid the problem now.  I added a sleep(5) after I
instantiate each thread.  This is apparently an old problem with thread
initialization clashing.


--- John Mudd <joh...@ya...> wrote:
> I added a simple call to sleep(2) in the run() mathod of some
> threads. 
> The threads now terminate (w/o exception) when the sleep() is
> reached. 
> It's not a critical problem for me.  I was just using the sleep()
> during debugging.
> 
> 
> I get the problem when using either Jython 2.0 or 2.1.a1.
> 
> 
> Here are the only references to sleep() in my program.  So I don't
> think I've redefined it.
> 
> $  grep sleep conv.py
> from time    import time, localtime, sleep
> 	sleep(2)
> $
> 
> 
> 
> I tried a small test program (attached) but it works as it should. 
> So
> it's something to do with my application.
> 
> I tried "import time" and calling time.sleep(2) instead of sleep(2)
> but
> that didn't help.
> 
> I tried printing the value of `sleep` before calling it.  I got the
> same sort of output from both my application that has the problem and
> and test program that runs okay.  Here's an example:
> 
>      sleep=<java function sleep at 1203696510>
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> 
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> ATTACHMENT part 2 application/x-unknown name=sleepBug.py



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