threading2
Release 0.3.1

like the standard threading module, but awesomer

Keywords: thread, threading
License: MIT
Install: pip install threading2==0.3.1

Documentation


  threading2:  like the standard threading module, but awesomer.

This module is designed as a drop-in replacement and extension for the default
"threading" module.  It has two main objectives:

    * implement primitives using native platform functionality where possible
    * expose more sophisticated functionality where it can be done uniformly

The following extensions are currently implemented:

    * ability to set (advisory) thread priority
    * ability to set (advisory) CPU affinity at thread and process level
    * thread groups for simultaneous management of multiple threads
    * SHLock class for shared/exclusive (also known as read/write) locks

The following API niceties are also included:

    * all blocking methods take a "timeout" argument and return a success code
    * all exposed objects are actual classes and can be safely subclassed

This has currently only been tested on WinXP and Ubuntu Karmic; similar 
platforms *should* work OK, and other platforms *should* fall back to using
sensible default behaviour, but I'm not making any guarantees at this stage.

Additional planned extensions include:

    * make stack_size a kwarg when creating a thread
    * native events, semaphores and timed waits on win32
    * native conditions and timed waits on pthreads platforms
    * native SHLock implementations (SRW on Win Vista+, pthread_rwlock)

Dependencies: 0
Dependent packages: 1
Dependent repositories: 6
Total releases: 8
Latest release: May 6, 2014
First release: Feb 3, 2010
Stars: 36
Forks: 5
Watchers: 3
Contributors: 3
Repository size: 184 KB
SourceRank: 10