How to determine the current thread
Using arguments to identify or name the thread is cumbersome and unnecessary. Each Thread instance has a name with a default value that can be changed as the thread is created. Naming threads is useful in server processes with multiple service threads that handle different operations.
How to do it…
To determine which thread is running, we create three target functions and import the time module to introduce a suspend execution of two seconds:
import threading
import time
def first_function():
print (threading.currentThread().getName()+\
str(' is Starting \n'))
time.sleep(2)
print (threading.currentThread().getName()+\
str( ' is Exiting \n'))
return
def second_function():
print (threading.currentThread().getName()+\
str(' is Starting \n'))
time.sleep(2)
print (threading.currentThread().getName()+\
str( ' is Exiting \n'))
return
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