I’m writing a GUI application that regularly retrieves data through a web connection. Since this retrieval takes a while, this causes the UI to be unresponsive during the retrieval process (it cannot be split into smaller parts). This is why I’d like to outsource the web connection to a separate worker thread.
In the Python documentation
it says:
I have a script and I want one function to run at the same time as the other.
I’m slightly confused about whether multithreading works in Python or not.
This may have been asked in a similar context but I was unable to find an answer after about 20 minutes of searching, so I will ask.
I was studying the python threading and came across join().
I am trying to make 2 functions run at the same time.
What’s the proper way to tell a looping thread to stop looping?
t1=threading.Thread(target=self.read()) print("something") t2=threading.Thread(target=self.runChecks(), args=(self,)) self.read runs indefinitely, so the program won’t ever reach the print line. How is this possible without calling t1.start()? (Even if I call that, it shold start running and go on to the next line, shouldn’t it?) Answers: Thank you for visiting the Q&A section on Magenaut. Please note that all … Read more
In JavaScript I am used to being able to call functions to be executed at a later time, like this