Chapter 5. Managing Threads
The Python language provides several functions and modules that will allow you to create, start, and control multiple threads. This chapter is designed to help you understand how to quickly implement threads into your programs to provide faster and easier processing of data.
Working with multiple threads that share the same data at the same time can be problematic. For example, two or more threads could try to access the same data at the same time, causing race conditions that can lead to deadlocks. For that reason, this chapter includes using thread locks and queues to manage data so that access to the CPU and data can be synchronized across multiple threads.
Timer-interrupted threads can be extremely valuable to provide ...
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