Not an issue, but a question. Ending a pyttsx thread

[gyaaniguy]

in my python program I am starting a thread. This thread creates a engine object and invokes engine.runAndWait() . engine.stop() (inside onWord()) is called to stop the engine and end the thread. After this another identical thread using the same function is created . Now the problem starts. even though the first thread is dead. something still interferes with the second thread and does not allow it to work properly.

Basically what I want to do is stop a previous pyttsx instance and start another pyttsx instance. All this effort is directed at having something like a pause feature...

Here is the full code of my tiny 'program' : http://pastebin.com/dnCd3KjS

Hope I was able to make myself clear.

[gyaaniguy]

Oops, that pastebin doesn't work. this one will: http://pastebin.com/2sv5rnDg

[parente]

You're the first person to try using the same engine in multiple threads. My fault for not stating that a single engine instance is not thread safe. In fact, I'm not certain that multiple engine instances will work across threads either as the underlying driver instance might be a singleton or unsafe too.