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Programming with threads is one of the more difficult tasks in programming. The Python threading and Queue modules make this significantly easier, but it still takes some deliberation to use threads in an efficient way. Submit article

Threaded applications are considered to be so difficult to implement properly that programmers are often encouraged to avoid them unless absolutely necessary. This is because of the difficulty in synchronizing data between threads. There are several techniques to accomplish this. Typical solutions involve sharing an area of memory or a pipe (a channel that maps [...]