threads instead od processes

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Sun Jul 11 20:23:38 EDT 2004


In article <cc3uus$vs7$01$1 at news.t-online.com>,
Markus Franz <mail at markus-franz.de> wrote:
>
>I've got a little script:
>
>#!/usr/bin/python
>import sys, os
>for x in sys.argv[1:]:
>    pid = os.fork()
>    if pid == 0:
>        # do something with x
>        break
>
>This creates some new processes (depending on the number of passed command
>line arguments) and inside each process x is one command line argument.
>
>Now my question is: How can I do the same by using threads instead of
>processes?

Use the ``threading`` library module.  Google for "python thread
tutorial" to find the many available.
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