Book Description
Unlock concurrency with Python threads (and run 100s or 1,000s of tasks simultaneously) The threading module provides easy-to-use thread-based concurrency in Python. Unlike Python multiprocessing, the threading module is limited by the infamous Global Interpreter Lock (GIL). Critically, the GIL is released when performing blocking I/O. Additionally, threads can share memory making them perfectly suited to I/O-bound tasks such as reading and writing from files and socket connections. This is the API you need to use to make your code run faster. Introducing: "Python Threading Jump-Start". A new book designed to teach you the threading module in Python, super fast! You will get a rapid-paced, 7-part course to get you started and make you awesome at using the threading API. Each of the 7 lessons was carefully designed to teach one critical aspect of the threading module, with explanations, code snippets and worked examples. You will discover: * How to choose tasks that are well suited to threads. * How to create and run new threads. * How to locate and query running threads. * How to use locks, semaphores, barriers and more. * How to share data between threads using queues. * How to execute ad hoc tasks with reusable worker threads. * How to gracefully stop and forcefully kill threads. Each lesson ends with an exercise for you to complete to confirm you understand the topic, a summary of what was learned, and links for further reading if you want to go deeper. Stop copy-pasting code from StackOverflow answers. Learn Python concurrency correctly, step-by-step.