Python in a Nutshell

Name

Thread

Synopsis

class Thread(name=None,target=None,args=( ),kwargs={  })

Always call Thread with named arguments: the number and order of formal arguments may change in the future, but the names of existing arguments are guaranteed to stay. When you instantiate class Thread itself, you should specify target: t .run calls target (* args ,** kwargs ). When you subclass Thread and override run, you normally don’t specify target. In either case, execution doesn’t begin until you call t .start( ). name is t’s name. If name is None, Thread generates a unique name for t. If a subclass T of Thread overrides __init__, T.__init__ must call Thread.__init__ on self before any other Thread method.