[Twisted-Python] Twisted and python threading

[Andrew Bennetts]

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> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to spawn a threading.Thread from a Twisted application, but
> the thread won't start unless I schedule the the code with
> reactor.callLater(), any Ideas ?

Twisted doesn't affect threading.Thread at all.

You haven't given much detail, so my best guess is that you are calling
Twisted APIs from a non-reactor thread.  Twisted's APIs are generally
*not* thread-safe, so that will give undefined behaviour (like nothing
happening when it should).  Basically the only API you should use is
reactor.callFromThread.  See
<http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/core/howto/threading.html>.

If that's not your problem, you'll have to elaborate more on what your
problem (like what precisely you mean by “thread won't start”) and how
to reproduce it.

-Andrew.