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.

Python's thread and threading libraries use POSIX threads. The threading library is the higher level of the two and is therefore the one to use in your typical programming tasks. The Queue module provides a thread-safe mechanism for communicating between threads, like a combination list and semaphore. Read More...

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. Read More...