Chapter 18. Multithreaded Programming

Chapter Topics

• Introduction/Motivation

• Threads and Processes

• Threads and Python

• thread Module

• tHReading Module

• Producer-Consumer Problem and the Queue Module

• Related Modules

In this section, we will explore the different ways you can achieve more parallelism in your code by using the multithreaded (MT) programming features found in Python. We will begin by differentiating between processes and threads in the first few of sections of this chapter. We will then introduce the notion of multithreaded programming. (Those of you already familiar with MT programming can skip directly to Section 18.3.5.) The final sections of this chapter present some examples of how to use the threading and Queue modules to accomplish MT programming with Python.