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.

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[Aahz]

In article <ma**************************************@python.o rg>,
<an***********@agip.it> wrote:

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.
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is not worth knowing." --Alan Perlis

[chrisg]

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

[Tim Roberts]

an***********@agip.it wrote:

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.
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