Practice Basic Thread Example (2.1) - Chapter 7: Concurrency and Parallelism in Python

Practice: Basic Thread Example

Lesson 2.1Concurrency and Parallelism in Python

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Question 1.
What is a thread?
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Think of it as a mini program running within your main program.
Question 2.
What does setting a thread as a daemon do?
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Recall how it does not block the main program from finishing.
3Question 3.
What does the start() method do for a thread?
- It pauses the thread
- It begins the thread's execution
- It kills the thread
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What happens to a thread after you tell it to 'start'?
4Question 4.
True or False: Daemon threads block the main program from exiting.
- True
- False
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Consider what happens when the main program stops.
Question 5.
Create a program that uses three threads to download a list of web pages concurrently. Ensure thread safety when modifying a shared list of downloaded content.
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Consider using a shared list that gets updated once each thread completes its download.
Question 6.
Explain and implement a scenario where using daemon threads would be more beneficial than regular threads.
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Think about tasks that can be safely interrupted.

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