mlpy.tools.misc.Waiting

class mlpy.tools.misc.Waiting(text=None)

Bases: threading.Thread

The waiting class.

The waiting class prints dots (.) on stdout to indicate that a process is running. The waiting process runs on a different thread to not disturbed the running process.

Examples

>>> def long_process():
...     for i in xrange(20):
...         pass
...
>>> w = Waiting("processing")
>>>
>>> w.start()
>>> long_process()
>>> w.stop()
processing ......

Attributes

daemon	A boolean value indicating whether this thread is a daemon thread (True) or not (False).
ident	Thread identifier of this thread or None if it has not been started.
name	A string used for identification purposes only.

Methods

getName()
isAlive()	Return whether the thread is alive.
isDaemon()
is_alive()	Return whether the thread is alive.
join([timeout])	Wait until the thread terminates.
run()	Run the process.
setDaemon(daemonic)
setName(name)
start()	Start the process.
stop()	End the process.