Pass the response_queue to the constructor, not start().

Removes an unnecessary Thread base-class override.  The python
documentation also strongly discourages overriding anything other
than run().

lib/interface.py

@@ -31,13 +31,13 @@ from version import ELECTRUM_VERSION, PROTOCOL_VERSION
 from simple_config import SimpleConfig
 
 
-def Interface(server, config = None):
+def Interface(server, response_queue, config = None):
     """Interface factory function.  The returned interface class handles the connection
     to a single remote electrum server.  The object handles all necessary locking.  It's
     exposed API is:
 
     - Inherits everything from threading.Thread.
-    - Member functions start(), send_request(), stop(), is_connected()
+    - Member functions send_request(), stop(), is_connected()
     - Member variable server.
     
     "is_connected()" is currently racy.  "server" is constant for the object's lifetime and hence
@@ -45,13 +45,13 @@ def Interface(server, config = None):
     """
     host, port, protocol = server.split(':')
     if protocol in 'st':
-        return TcpInterface(server, config)
+        return TcpInterface(server, response_queue, config)
     else:
         raise Exception('Unknown protocol: %s'%protocol)
 
 class TcpInterface(threading.Thread):
 
-    def __init__(self, server, config = None):
+    def __init__(self, server, response_queue, config = None):
         threading.Thread.__init__(self)
         self.daemon = True
         self.config = config if config is not None else SimpleConfig()
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ class TcpInterface(threading.Thread):
         self.connected = False
         self.debug = False # dump network messages. can be changed at runtime using the console
         self.message_id = 0
+        self.response_queue = response_queue
         self.unanswered_requests = {}
         # are we waiting for a pong?
         self.is_ping = False
@@ -275,10 +276,6 @@ class TcpInterface(threading.Thread):
         self.connected = False
         self.print_error("stopped")
 
-    def start(self, response_queue):
-        self.response_queue = response_queue
-        threading.Thread.start(self)
-
     def run(self):
         self.s = self.get_socket()
         if self.s:

lib/network.py

@@ -271,9 +271,9 @@ class Network(util.DaemonThread):
     def start_interface(self, server):
         if server in self.interfaces.keys():
             return
-        i = interface.Interface(server, self.config)
+        i = interface.Interface(server, self.queue, self.config)
         self.pending_servers.add(server)
-        i.start(self.queue)
+        i.start()
         return i
 
     def start_random_interface(self):

scripts/util.py

@@ -25,10 +25,10 @@ def send_request(peers, request):
     # start interfaces
     q2 = Queue.Queue()
     config = SimpleConfig()
-    interfaces = map ( lambda server: Interface(server, config), peers )
+    interfaces = map( lambda server: Interface(server, q2, config), peers )
     reached_servers = []
     for i in interfaces:
-        i.start(q2)
+        i.start()
     t0 = time.time()
     while peers:
         try: