Creating Threads in python

Question

I have a script and I want one function to run at the same time as the other.

The example code I have looked at:

import threading

def MyThread (threading.thread):
    # doing something........

def MyThread2 (threading.thread):
    # doing something........

MyThread().start()
MyThread2().start()

I am having trouble getting this working. I would prefer to get this going using a threaded function rather than a class.

This is the working script:

from threading import Thread

class myClass():

    def help(self):
        os.system('./ssh.py')

    def nope(self):
        a = [1,2,3,4,5,6,67,78]
        for i in a:
            print i
            sleep(1)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    Yep = myClass()
    thread = Thread(target = Yep.help)
    thread2 = Thread(target = Yep.nope)
    thread.start()
    thread2.start()
    thread.join()
    print 'Finished'

Answer 1

You don't need to use a subclass of Thread to make this work - take a look at the simple example I'm posting below to see how:

from threading import Thread
from time import sleep

def threaded_function(arg):
    for i in range(arg):
        print("running")
        sleep(1)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    thread = Thread(target = threaded_function, args = (10, ))
    thread.start()
    thread.join()
    print("thread finished...exiting")

Here I show how to use the threading module to create a thread which invokes a normal function as its target. You can see how I can pass whatever arguments I need to it in the thread constructor.