Learn Web Development with Python

Spawning multiple threads

Just for fun, let's play with two threads now:

# starwars.pyimport threadingfrom time import sleepfrom random import randomdef run(n):    t = threading.current_thread()    for count in range(n):        print(f'Hello from {t.name}! ({count})')        sleep(0.2 * random())obi = threading.Thread(target=run, name='Obi-Wan', args=(4, ))ani = threading.Thread(target=run, name='Anakin', args=(3, ))obi.start()ani.start()obi.join()ani.join()

The run function simply prints the current thread, and then enters a loop of n cycles, in which it prints a greeting message, and sleeps for a random amount of time, between 0 and 0.2 seconds (random() returns a float between 0 and 1).

The purpose of this example is to show you how a scheduler might jump ...