I'm trying to learn how to use threading in a python program. I'm using PySide and QThreads since I'm going to implement gui afterwards with PySide.
I have understood the main consept of threading, at least I think. But I'm still confused with event loops. And I think that is the problem with my aplication.
Here is a sample application that I can't get to work properly. In my main class I have several worker threads and I want to them to report their progress to the main main class. But the main program don't print progress messages in real time.
How could I get this to work?
from PySide import QtCore
import time, sys
class MyWorkerThread(QtCore.QThread):
message = QtCore.Signal(str)
def __init__(self, id, parent=None):
super(MyWorkerThread, self).__init__(parent)
self.id = id
def run(self):
for i in range(10):
self.message.emit("%d: %d" % (self.id, i))
time.sleep(0.2)
class MainProgram():
def __init__(self, parent=None):
self.threads = []
self.addWorker(MyWorkerThread(1))
self.addWorker(MyWorkerThread(2))
def addWorker(self, worker):
worker.message.connect(self.printMessage, QtCore.Qt.QueuedConnection)
self.threads.append(worker)
def startWorkers(self):
for worker in self.threads:
worker.start()
worker.wait()
self.workersFinished()
def workersFinished(self):
QtCore.QCoreApplication.instance().quit()
@QtCore.Slot(str)
def printMessage(self, text):
sys.stdout.write(text+'\n')
sys.stdout.flush()
if __name__ == '__main__':
app = QtCore.QCoreApplication(sys.argv)
m = MainProgram()
m.startWorkers()
sys.exit(app.exec_())