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Advanced Python Programming
book

Advanced Python Programming

by Dr. Gabriele Lanaro, Quan Nguyen, Sakis Kasampalis
February 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
672 pages
16h 50m
English
Packt Publishing
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Python simulation

In this section, we will implement the preceding situation in an actual Python program. Specifically, we will have two locks (we will call them lock A and lock B), and two separate threads interacting with the locks (thread A and thread B). In our program, we will set up a situation in which thread A has acquired lock A and is waiting to acquire lock B, which has already been acquired by thread B, which is, in turn, waiting for lock A to be released.

If you have already downloaded the code for this book from the GitHub page, go ahead and navigate to the Chapter18 folder. Let us consider the Chapter18/example1.py file, as follows:

# Chapter18/example1.pyimport threadingimport timedef thread_a(): print('Thread A is starting...') ...
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