Advanced Python Programming

Chapter 10

What is a thread? What are the core differences between a thread and a process?

A thread of execution is the smallest unit of programming commands. More than one thread can be implemented within a same process, usually executing concurrently and accessing/sharing the same resources, such as memory, while separate processes do not do this.

What are the API options provided by the thread module in Python?

The main feature of the thread module is its fast and efficient method of creating new threads to execute functions: the thread.start_new_thread() function. Aside from this, the module only supports a number of low-level ways of working with multithreaded primitives and sharing their global data space. Additionally, simple lock ...