To see how Python threading works in practice, let's construct some example applications that can take some benefit from implementing multithreading. We will discuss a simple problem that you may encounter from time to time in your professional practice making multiple parallel HTTP queries. This problem was already mentioned as a common use case for multithreading.
Let's say we need to fetch data from some web service using multiple queries that cannot be batched into a single big HTTP request. As a realistic example, we will use foreign exchange reference rates endpoint from Foreign exchange rates API, available at https://exchangeratesapi.io/. The reasons for that choice are as follows:
- This service ...
