Who stops my threads?

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00:00 Who Stops My Threads?
01:01 Answer 1 Score 2
01:10 Accepted Answer Score 2
01:24 Answer 3 Score 0
01:38 Answer 4 Score 3
01:49 Thank you

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3620...

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ANSWER 1

Score 3

If that is the actual code it's pretty obvious: myQueue.get_nowait() raises an Exception (Empty) when the queue is empty!

ANSWER 2

Score 2

stackoverflow? :)

ACCEPTED ANSWER

Score 2

As example, an exception inside the loop will stop the thread.

Why do you use get_nowait() and not get()? What if the Queue is empty?

ANSWER 4

Score 0

GIL? at one time only an interpreter is doing the job if you want true parallelization you must use multiprocessing see http://docs.python.org/library/multiprocessing.html