Using the Python threading module
Python manages a thread via the threading package that is provided by the Python standard library. This module provides some very interesting features that make the threading-based approach a whole lot easier; in fact, the threading module provides several synchronization mechanisms that are very simple to implement.
The major components of the threading module are:
The thread object
The Lock object
The RLock object
The semaphore object
The condition object
The event object
In the following recipes, we examine the features offered by the threading library with different application examples. For the examples that follow, we will refer to the Python distribution 3.3 (even though Python 2.7 could be used).
