Threads

[Itamar Shtull-Trauring]

Shashank Date wrote:

> Each thread will go out on the web (various web sites) and fetch certain
> documents. The main thread will wait for all the threads to terminate OR
> some external event (like deletion of a file). If the external event fires
> before termination of child-threads it kills all the spawned threads and
> terminates.

Use Queue.Queue objects to pass tasks to threads (or, say, None to tell a
thread to shutdown.) You can't really kill threads in Python, they can only
exit on their own.


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