Python, thread and gobject
multithreading, pygtk, python
Solution
Can you post some code? It could be that you have problems with the Global Interpreter Lock.
Your problem solved by someone else :). I could copy-paste the article here, but in short gtk's c-threads clash with Python threads. You need to disable c-threads by calling gobject.threads_init() and all should be fine.
Problem
I am writing a program by a framework using pygtk. The main program doing the following things: - Create a watchdog thread to monitor some resource - Create a client to receive data from socket - call `gobject.Mainloop()` but it seems after my program enter the Mainloop, the watchdog thread also won't run. My workaround is to use `gobject.timeout_add` to run the monitor thing. But why does creating another thread not work? Here is my code: ``` import gobject import time from threading import Thread class MonitorThread(Thread): def __init__(self): Thread.__init__(self) def run(self): print "Watchdog running..." time.sleep(10) def main(): mainloop = gobject.MainLoop(is_running=True) def quit(): mainloop.quit() def sigterm_cb(): gobject.idle_add(quit) t = MonitorThread() t.start() print "Enter mainloop..." while mainloop.is_running(): try: mainloop.run() except KeyboardInterrupt: quit() if __name__ == '__main__': main() ``` The program output only "Watchdog running...Enter mainloop..", then nothing. Seems thread never run after entering mainloop.