Advanced Python Programming

Starting a thread with the threading module

You now know how to start a thread with the thread module, and you know about its limited and low-level use of threading and the need for considerably unintuitive workarounds when working with it. In this subsection, we will explore the preferred threading module and its advantages over the thread module, with regard to the implementation of multithreaded programs in Python.

To create and customize a new thread using the threading module, there are specific steps that need to be followed:

1. Define a subclass of the threading.Thread class in your program
2. Override the default __init__(self [,args]) method inside of the subclass, in order to add custom arguments for the class
3. Override the default