Advanced Python Programming

The thread module in Python 2

Before the threading module became popular, the primary thread-based development module was thread. If you are using an older version of Python 2, it is possible to use the module as it is. However, according to the module documentation page, the thread module was, in fact, renamed _thread in Python 3.

For readers that have been working with the thread module to build multithreaded applications and are looking to port their code from Python 2 to Python 3, the 2to3 tool might be a solution. The 2to3 tool handles most of the detectable incompatibilities between the different versions of Python, while parsing the source and traversing the source tree to convert Python 2.x code into Python 3.x code. Another trick ...