save-thread-result 0.0.3

Simple subclass wrapper around `threading.Thread` to get the return value from a thread in python (from `threading` built-in package in Python Standard library). Exact same interface for creating an instance of this threading sublcass as `threading.Thread`!

save-thread-result Python API

Installing the package

Enter the following in your command line:

# if something isn't working properly, try rerunning this
# the problem may have been fixed with a newer version

pip3 install -U save-thread-result     # MacOS/Linux
pip  install -U save-thread-result     # Windows

Initializing the ThreadWithResult class

This package uses a threading.Thread subclass ThreadWithResult that saves the result of a thread (from threading built-in package in Python Standard library) as its result attribute - i.e. after the thread finishes running, call thread.result to get the return value from the function that ran on that thread.

python3     # MacOS/Linux
python      # Windows

from save_thread_result import ThreadWithResult

thread = ThreadWithResult(target=my_function, args=(my_function_arg1, my_function_arg2, ...))

thread.start()
thread.join()
print(thread.result)

Seeing all available methods and attributes for `ThreadWithResult` class

python3     # MacOS/Linux
python      # Windows

from save_thread_result import ThreadWithResult

help(ThreadWithResult)

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