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running 2 loops at the same time - julio2000 - Mar-21-2020
Hey,
I've created my own program, and i want my program's user's discord, to be telling that he is 'playing' my program while he is running it. I've created a function (set_discord_status) wich sets the user's discord status to: 'playing Storm Aio'. But this is a loop.. And i want this loop to run at the same time as my program. I've created a other loop (loop) wich demonstrates my program. And so, I want my program (loop - in this case) to run at the same time as the loop wich sets my discord status. i've created the code below but when I run that. It will set the discord status, but it won't run the other loop...
Does someone know what i did wrong?
from threading import Thread
import rpc
import time
def set_discord_status(): # This is a function wich sets my discord status to a specific game
client_id = '689533785343000590'
rpc_obj = rpc.DiscordIpcClient.for_platform(client_id)
start_time = time.time()
while True:
activity = {
"state": "Beta version: 0.0.1",
"details": "Taking stock...",
"timestamps": {
"start": start_time
},
"assets": {
"small_text": "Light",
"small_image": "little",
"large_text": "StormAIO",
"large_image": "default"
}
}
rpc_obj.set_activity(activity)
def loop(): # This is a loop just to test if they can run at the same time
while True:
print('hoi')
Thread(target=set_discord_status()).start()
Thread(target=loop()).start()
RE: running 2 loops at the same time - ndc85430 - Mar-21-2020
Lines 33 and 34 are wrong. You're calling the functions there. The thing you pass as the
target parameter should be the function itself (e.g. loop - note the lack of parens). This makes sense if you think about it - it's the job of the thread (its run method in particular) to call your function.
RE: running 2 loops at the same time - julio2000 - Mar-21-2020
So the fix is this?
Thread(target=set_discord_status).start() Thread(target=loop).start()
RE: running 2 loops at the same time - ndc85430 - Mar-21-2020
Yes. Did you try it?
It should be obvious why it wasn't working with the original code - you were calling
set_discord_status on line 33, i.e. in the main thread and since it never completes (due to the infinite loop), execution never reached line 34. For that matter, the thread you created on line 33 was never started, either.
RE: running 2 loops at the same time - julio2000 - Mar-21-2020
yeah but how do i make sure execution makes it to line 34?
When I run it like this:
Thread(target=set_discord_status).start() Thread(target=loop).start()The set_discord_status function and its loop dont work...
RE: running 2 loops at the same time - ndc85430 - Mar-21-2020
Define "don't work". I have no way to try and reproduce your issue, since I don't have Discord. Perhaps you can put some debugging print statements inside the function to see what's happening?
This simple example is doing as expected:
import threading
import time
def foo():
i = 0
while True:
print(i)
i += 1
time.sleep(0.1)
def bar():
while True:
print("Bar")
time.sleep(0.5)
threading.Thread(target=foo).start()
threading.Thread(target=bar).start()Sample output:Output:$ python3 thread.py
0
Bar
1
2
3
4
Bar
5
6
7
8
9
BarRE: running 2 loops at the same time - julio2000 - Mar-21-2020
Idk how, but i fixed it haha. Thanks!
RE: running 2 loops at the same time - ndc85430 - Mar-21-2020
What did you change?