Hi all,

I've used urlib many times before and have never got 
anything like this.. therefore i'm assuming this is a new 
thing in 2.3. because i've only been seeing this since I 
upgraded my Python version. Anyway At the end of a 
program that uses urllib.urlopen() this line appears

Worker thread [ 4291533751 ] : recieved quit event

And even if the program doesn't output anything it still 
appears, it's not really a big problem but it is very 
anoying! If somone could explain it I would much 
appreciate it.

I've attach a sample program (i've tested it with a few 
smaller programs and get the same output)

Mark.

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On my OS X machine I don't get that message.  What OS are you 
using, Mark?  If you look at urllib it does not import any threading 
module.  I ran ``egrep -r "Worker thread" *`` and it found 
nothing.  Search also failed for "recieved quit event" (which 
"recieved" is misspelled so you would think a search would turn it 
up easily).  I have a sneaking suspicion this might be platform-
specific.

Also, just a tip on opening files relative to the running code: it's 
best to make it absolute by making the path like so:

path = os.path.join(os.path.split(__file__)[0], "file.txt"))

This makes the path absolute so if people (like me) try to execute 
your script from another directory Python doesn't say it can't find 
the file you are referencing.

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I agree with you.. I have a few box's, the error is on Windows 
me box. I havn't had the oppertunity to upgrade the version 
of Python on my XP box because it is running some fairly 
important stuff i'm working on but I plan on upgrading as soon 
as I can. I have a FreeBSD box aswell but no Python as of 
yet. My friend is running FreeBSD and doesn't see the Worker 
Thread either..

I did the same search after I posted this message yesterday 
and couldnt fine anything either. If take into account my lack 
of copying skills then that could explain the miss spelling, I 
know we do spell some words differently from american 
english.

Thanks for the tip, as far as I'm aware if you open a file with 
just the files names then Python automatically looks in the 
same dir as the script. So i'm a little unsure why I would want 
to use an absolute file name when the file is right there :).

Thanks for your help.
Mark.

 

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If you could attempt to figure out where the message is coming 
from that would be great since I have no clue what would be 
causing it.

As for the file path thing, I was executing from my CVS directory 
with your files on my desktop so I did not have my working 
directory the same as where the script was.

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Ok I've spent allot of my free time working on this now and 
I'm pretty sure it isn't in the urllib module. The same message 
is displayed when using smtplib and sendmail. Both modules 
use the socket module, but I am not sure about searching 
that for the message since it is writen in C (A lang' i've only 
brushed with a  few times) plus i'm not sure if this has been 
changed since 2.2.. I could probably upgrade my version at 
home and see if i get the same message but i'm a little 
reluctant to do that.

Sorry cannon, I don't know much about Macs or Mac OS :)

Hope this helps, let me know what you think. Am not sure 
where to go next.

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The problem can also been see when running IDLE (idle.py 
intead of the idle.pyw). When you close the program 
the "worker thread" message appears in the Python window 
before it closes. My conclusion is that this error is definatly to 
do with the socket module (The version of IDLE packaged in 
2.3 uses sockets).

What chages were made to the socket module in 2.3? Also 
has anyone else knoticed this error?

Any help would be very appreciated,

Thanks,
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Perhaps this has to do only with your version of IDLE?  In the 
current CVS, various greps for "orker", "recieved" etc did not 
show up with something relevant.
If you are sure about the "Worker" spelling, try this script in 
your Millenium windows:

### code start
import sys, os, itertools

for dirname, dirnames, filenames in os.walk(sys.prefix):
    joiner = os.path.join.__get__(dirname)
    for filename in itertools.imap(joiner, filenames):
        data = file(filename, "rb").read()
        if "Worker" in data:
            print filename
### code end

this searches your whole python installation directory, 
for /any/ file containing the string "Worker".  A run on a 2.3b2 
install showed these files:
C:\PY.23\Lib\distutils\bcppcompiler.py
C:\PY.23\Lib\distutils\ccompiler.py
C:\PY.23\Lib\distutils\msvccompiler.py

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I get the same results as you. I have no idea where this error 
is coming form then, and I’m only getting these results from 
this box, I tested it on XP and it worked fine. No sign of the 
elusive worker thread anywhere.

Comfused but since this doesn't appear to be a problem with 
Python and more with ME I can live with it :)

Thanks for all your help guys,

Have fun,
Mark.

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Since the string "Worker" can only be found in three comments in 
Distutils I am closing this bug as invalid.