Practice Basic Thread Example - 2.1 | Chapter 7: Concurrency and Parallelism in Python | Python Advance
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Practice Questions

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Question 1

Easy

What is a thread?

πŸ’‘ Hint: Think of it as a mini program running within your main program.

Question 2

Easy

What does setting a thread as a daemon do?

πŸ’‘ Hint: Recall how it does not block the main program from finishing.

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Interactive Quizzes

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Question 1

What does the start() method do for a thread?

  • It pauses the thread
  • It begins the thread's execution
  • It kills the thread

πŸ’‘ Hint: What happens to a thread after you tell it to 'start'?

Question 2

True or False: Daemon threads block the main program from exiting.

  • True
  • False

πŸ’‘ Hint: Consider what happens when the main program stops.

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Challenge Problems

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Question 1

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.

πŸ’‘ Hint: Consider using a shared list that gets updated once each thread completes its download.

Question 2

Explain and implement a scenario where using daemon threads would be more beneficial than regular threads.

πŸ’‘ Hint: Think about tasks that can be safely interrupted.

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