Threading Or Other Suggestions?!?

[andrea.gavana]

Hello NG,

I have a wxPython application that does a lot of things. One of them,
in particular, I have doubts on how to implement it. Essentially, this part
of my application calls an external executable (an oil reservoir
simulator). What I would like to do, is to give the user the possibility to
run more than 1 simulation at the same time. This means:

1) Writing the executable "data file" needed by the simulator
2) Run the executable file (and wait until completion)
3) Examine the simulation results

For this, I was thinking about threads... does anyone have other/better
suggestion(s)? Does anyone see any difficulty/memory problems in using
threads?

Thanks to you all for every suggestion.

Andrea.

 

[Aahz]

I have a wxPython application that does a lot of things. One of them,
in particular, I have doubts on how to implement it. Essentially, this part
of my application calls an external executable (an oil reservoir
simulator). What I would like to do, is to give the user the possibility to
run more than 1 simulation at the same time. This means:

1) Writing the executable "data file" needed by the simulator
2) Run the executable file (and wait until completion)
3) Examine the simulation results

For this, I was thinking about threads... does anyone have other/better
suggestion(s)? Does anyone see any difficulty/memory problems in using
threads?

If you're not on Windows, this will be much easier with multiple
processes.

 

[chrisg]

You could also use os.spawnl to launch it in a separate process.

 

[Tim Roberts]

I have a wxPython application that does a lot of things. One of them,
in particular, I have doubts on how to implement it. Essentially, this part
of my application calls an external executable (an oil reservoir
simulator). What I would like to do, is to give the user the possibility to
run more than 1 simulation at the same time. This means:

1) Writing the executable "data file" needed by the simulator
2) Run the executable file (and wait until completion)
3) Examine the simulation results

For this, I was thinking about threads... does anyone have other/better
suggestion(s)? Does anyone see any difficulty/memory problems in using
threads?

Yes. Threads are used to run multiple parts of your own program. To run
another program, you need to launch a new process.

You can still monitor it.