I have a function that reads in text files and parses them and I would like to write the parsed results to a csv file. How do you get result from a thread?
def parse_txt_file(file_path):
with open(file_path,'r') as f:
# parse all the data here
# this can take long.....
return parsed_data
def loading_animation(process):
while process.is_alive():
# do some stuff
def generate_csv(parsed_data):
# write to csv file
def main():
my_thread = threading.Thread(target=parse_txt_file,args=(file_path,))
my_thread.start()
loading_animation(my_thread)
my_thread.join()
# At this point I want to get the parsed data from the my_thread
# and call generate_csv()
generate_csv(parsed_data) # <-- How to get the the parsed data from my_thread?
