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Coding

Using Threading rather than Thread

In an earlier post, I used Threads but the thread module in Python when I should be using threading. The documentation for threading says it builds upon the thread module (renamed _thread): This module provides low-level primitives for working with multiple threads (also called light-weight processes or tasks)

Coding

Python's with statement

Managing resources usually involves three steps - allocating, using, and releasing. You're familiar with the try... finally pattern but Python also provides context managers. This is an object which has runtime context. There are entry and exit methods which let us define how resources are allocated and what needs

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