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Guido van Rossum260cc1a81992-08-10 10:48:14 +00001This directory contains some demonstrations of the thread module.
Guido van Rossum9f2a5b01994-05-16 09:35:01 +00002This module is only available, optionally, for a few platforms: SGI
3IRIX 4 and IRIX 5, SunOS 4 (not completely functioning), Solaris 2,
4and supposedly any platform that supports Posix Threads (currently
5only tested with KSR's implementation). See ../../Python/thread.c.
Guido van Rossum260cc1a81992-08-10 10:48:14 +00006
Guido van Rossumf82fef01993-12-17 14:45:06 +00007These are mostly "proof of concept" type applications:
8
Guido van Rossum9f2a5b01994-05-16 09:35:01 +00009bug.py Demonstrate a bug with importing modules in threads.
10condition.py Condition variables test by Tim Peters.
11find.py Parallelized "find(1)" (looks for directories).
Guido van Rossumd15a1551994-05-03 14:14:49 +000012Generator.py Generator class implemented with threads.
Guido van Rossum260cc1a81992-08-10 10:48:14 +000013telnet.py Version of ../sockets/telnet.py using threads.
14wpi.py Version of ../scripts/pi.py using threads and stdwin.