Advanced Python Programming

Waiting for processes

Oftentimes, we'd like to wait for all of our concurrent processes to finish executing before moving to a new section of the program. As mentioned before, the Process class from the multiprocessing module provides the join() method in order to implement a way to wait until a process has completed its task and exits.

However, sometimes developers want to implement processes that run in the background and do not block the main program from exiting. This specification is commonly used when there is no easy way for the main program to tell whether it is appropriate to interrupt the process at any given time, or when exiting the main program without completing the worker does not affect the end result.

These processes are ...