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Does Python support multi-threading?

What are the thread and threading modules for?

Jun 7th, 2000 10:09
unknown unknown, Thomas Wouters

Yep.  Python does support multi-threading.

Multi-threading :-) the 'thread' module is the low-level thread 
interface, whereas the threading module is a higher-level, more 
object-oriented, Java-inspired (I do believe) interface. Threading is 
fairly basic, however, and not very widely available (partly because not 
all platforms support (proper) threading, and partly because it has to 
be explicitly enabled by whoever compiles Python, on the target machine.