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Learning Concurrency in Python

You're reading from   Learning Concurrency in Python Build highly efficient, robust, and concurrent applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787285378
Length 360 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Elliot Forbes Elliot Forbes
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Preface 1. Speed It Up! FREE CHAPTER 2. Parallelize It 3. Life of a Thread 4. Synchronization between Threads 5. Communication between Threads 6. Debug and Benchmark 7. Executors and Pools 8. Multiprocessing 9. Event-Driven Programming 10. Reactive Programming 11. Using the GPU 12. Choosing a Solution

Handling threads in Python

In this section of the chapter, we'll take a look at how you can effectively create and manage multiple threads in Python programs.

Starting loads of threads

The first example we'll look at is how we can start numerous threads all at once. We can create multiple thread objects by using a for loop and then starting them within the same for loop. In the following example, we define a function that takes in an integer and which sleeps for a random amount of time, printing both when it is starting and ending.

We then create a for loop which loops up to 10, and create 10 distinct thread objects that have their target set to our executeThread function. It then starts the thread object we&apos...

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