threading in python

[krecoun]

Hi, I want to create a python wrapper for mplayer, which will read subtitles for movies through speech dispatcher. It is mainly for visually impaired people like me. I am using mplayer.py module for controlling mplayer in slave mode and pysub module for accessing .srt files. I want to create simple ncurses interface, which will just wait for certain keyboard shortcuts for quitting, pausing, stopping, changing of voice rate etc. But now how to do this? I have two loops: curses waiting for keypresses and another waiting for right time, mplayer for the time of movie. I have put the second loop into thead and it looks like this: class threadsub(threading.Thread): def __init__(self): super(threadsub, self).__init__() self._stop = threading.Event() def stop(self): self._stop.set() def stopped(self): return self._stop.isSet() def run(self): global playing for i in range (0, len(subs) - 1): ms = float(subs[i].start.milliseconds) ms = round(ms / 1000,1) time = subs[i].start.hours * 3600 + subs[i].start.minutes * 60 + subs[i].start.seconds + ms while playing == True: if time == round(p.time_pos,1): s.speak(subs[i].text) break if self.stopped() == True: playing = False if self.stopped() == True: break When i exit the program, i end curses and call threadsub.stop() But it doesn't stop, nor it raises an error. Can you please gi me an advice, how to do this properly? Or can you suggest other method for achieving this? Forgive my possible mistakes when pasting code, I am posting something like this for the first time. Thank you.

[Zugzwang]

@OP: Please start by making your code more readable. Put your code between "CODE" tags and make sure that the indentation is kept. If not, edit your post afterwards. After this process, we can actually see what is happening in your code.

[CynicRus]

http://jdolan.dyndns.org/trac/wiki/Pymp

[Zugzwang]

http://jdolan.dyndns.org/trac/wiki/Pymp

You might want to elaborate on how this link is supposed to help the OP, as that tools cannot do what the OP wants to achieve with his/her project.

[CynicRus]

You might want to elaborate on how this link is supposed to help the OP, as that tools cannot do what the OP wants to achieve with his/her project.

I want to create simple ncurses interface, which will just wait for certain keyboard shortcuts for quitting, pausing, stopping, changing of voice rate etc. But now how to do this?

The project is the link contains all the necessary information to work with mplaнer with python. But I could misunderstand the question, English is not my native language, (

[krecoun]

Well, I am satisfied with my mplayer solution with provided module.
But I can't convince my program to exit in normal way, I think that the thread is still running, however, I am not experienced enough with debugging to prove it.
I am attaching the code.
Thank you.

[krecoun]

Here it is sorry, I am confused of this forum.

[krecoun]

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[CynicRus]

If you need force kill thread - read http://docs.python.org/library/threa....Thread.daemon

[Zugzwang]

If you need force kill thread - read http://docs.python.org/library/threa....Thread.daemon

There is an easier, and probably better way: make "running" a class attribute of "threadsub". You would then have a code that looks like this:

...
class threadsub(threading.Thread):
    running = True    
    def run(self):
        playing = True
        for i in range (0, len(subs) - 1):
            ... 

Then, when you call "endcurses()", you could set "t.running = False". The next time your thread executes the line "if running == False", it will take the "if" and end the thread. You might need to replace that line by "if self.running == False", though.