How to use Event objects in python with a thread?

Question

I have a main python script which starts a thread running in the background.

poll = threading.Thread(target=poll_files, args=myargs)

I want my main script to wait until something specific happens in my poll thread. I want to use an Event object. So in my main script, I do:

trigger = threading.Event()

and when I want to wait:

trigger.wait()

My question is, inside my poll thread, how do I set the Event to True? I know I do:

trigger.set()

but do I need to also have trigger = threading.Event() inside my poll thread?

falsetru · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-06 14:02:09Z

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Pass the Event object to the thread target function so that they are shared between main thread and the pool thread:

def poll_files(....., trigger):
    ....
    trigger.set()

# main thread
trigger = threading.Event()
poll = threading.Thread(target=poll_files, args=myargs + (trigger,))
...
trigger.wait()

answered Jul 6, 2015 at 14:02

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