Chapter 4. Multithreaded Programming

> With Python you can start a thread, but you can’t stop it. > Sorry. You’ll have to wait until it reaches the end of execution. So, just the same as [comp.lang.python], then?

—Cliff Wells, Steve Holden(and Timothy Delaney), February 2002

In this chapter...

• Introduction/Motivation

• Threads and Processes

• Threads and Python

• The thread Module

• The threading Module

• Comparing Single vs. Multithreaded Execution

• Multithreading in Practice

• Producer-Consumer Problem and the Queue/queue Module

• Alternative Considerations to Threads

• Related Modules

In this section, we will explore the different ways by which you can achieve more parallelism in your code. We will begin by differentiating between processes ...

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