Thread locking question.

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Piet van Oostrum wrote:
>>>>>> grocery_stocker <cdalten at gmail.com> (gs) wrote:
> 
>> gs> The following code gets data from 5 different websites at the "same
>> gs> time".
> 
[snip]
>> gs> start = time.time()
> 
>> gs> def main():
>> gs>     for i in range(5):
>> gs>         t = MyUrl(queue)
>> gs>         t.setDaemon(True)
>> gs>         t.start()
> 
>> gs>     for host in hosts:
>> gs>         print "pushing", host
>> gs>         queue.put(host)
> 
>> gs>     for i in range(5):
>> gs>         queue.put(None)
> 
>> gs>     t.join()
> 
>> gs> if __name__ == "__main__":
>> gs>     main()
>> gs>     print "Elapsed Time: %s" % (time.time() - start)
> 
> 
>> gs> How does the parallel download work if each thread has a lock? When
>> gs> the program opens www.yahoo.com, it places a lock on the thread,
>> gs> right? If so, then doesn't that mean the other 4 sites have to wait
>> gs> for the thread to release the lock?
> 
> No. Where does it set a lock? There is only a short lock period in the queue
> when an item is put in the queue or got from the queue. And of course we
> have the GIL, but this is released as soon as a long during operation is
> started - in this case when the Internet communication is done.

Also, the code is creating 5 threads, but using join() on only the last
one.