Python Programming On Win32

Native Win32 Threads

The win32process module provides access to the beginthreadex() function provided by the Microsoft Visual C++ runtime library. This function allows you to specify a function as the thread, as well as some custom Win32 setting for the thread.

There are only a small number of situations when it’s necessary to use this function in preference to the standard threading module. The first is when you need access to the Win32-specific features, such as the security for the object or flags that indicate the thread should be created in a suspended mode. Another common situation is when the main thread requires the Win32 HANDLE of the new thread; this is not easy using the other Python threading modules (where only the new thread itself has easy access to this information).