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Using the threading module, a new thread of execution may be started by creating a new threading.Thread and assigning it a function to execute: import threading def foo(): print "Hello threading!" my_thread = threading.Thread(target=foo) The target parameter references the fun...

There are multiple threads in your code and you need to safely communicate between them. You can use a Queue from the queue library. from queue import Queue from threading import Thread # create a data producer def producer(output_queue): while True: data = data_computation() ...

Using threading & queue: from socket import socket, AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM from threading import Thread from queue import Queue def echo_server(addr, nworkers): print('Echo server running at', addr) # Launch the client workers q = Queue() for n in range(nworkers): ...

This section will contain some of the most advanced examples realized using Multithreading. Advanced printer (logger) A thread that prints everything is received and modifies the output according to the terminal width. The nice part is that also the "already written" output is modified w...

import threading import time class StoppableThread(threading.Thread): """Thread class with a stop() method. The thread itself has to check regularly for the stopped() condition.""" def __init__(self): super(StoppableThread, self).__init__()...