Threads in Python

Threads in Python

Types of OS threads

• POSIX
• Windows

user threads models

• 1 - 1
• M - 1
• M - N

States

• New

• Runnable

• Running

• Not runnable

• Dead

Create threads

• threading.Thread
• Inherit Thread class
• fork

Apis

• setDaemon(True)
• threading.current_thread()
• threading.main_thread()
• threading.enumerate()
• threading.active_count()

Gracefully terminate

• you can not, process has terminate() method