How to determine if threads are active in an application?

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:10:30 -0300, <python at bdurham.com> escribió:

> Is there technique to determine if threads are active in a Python
> application?
>
> The only technique I can think of is to check sys.modules for
> thread and threading. But this will only show whether these
> modules were imported - not whether there are actually background
> threads running.

I've just read your post.
Look at threading.activeCount() - this returns only those threads created  
using the threading module. If that's not enough, you'll have to use some  
OS-specific functions.

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Gabriel Genellina