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Optimizing sys.stdout.write()
I am an amateur playing around with making simple games using Python and the Windows console through sys.stdout.write(). I am aware that this method of doing 'graphics' with printing ascii characters ...
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Python tkinter not executing button commands on Raspberry Pi
I am developing an app to select and play a mp3 clip from a list. It will be run on a Pi4 with 7” touch display and piAMP+ hat. The GUI is in tkinter with pygame for the sound plus a pair of GPIO pins ...
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How do I use threading in Python?
I would like a clear example showing tasks being divided across multiple threads.
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Python 3.14 removes GIL. What possibilities of data races can happen in Python now? And how to handle them? [closed]
Are python references atomic under concurrent access? Are dictionaries and lists thread-safe?
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threading.Thread cannot catch a PyCharm "stop" button termination event
I am using Pycharm. When I click the "stop" button, the subprocess.Popen deletes the left over .bat files. But after putting the subprocess.Popen inside a threading.Thread function, the .bat ...
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Closing QDialog internally
I am trying to start a Dialog including QListWidget. In this list every time a status is changed, the list should get a new line. At the end, if the backup process has finished, the dialog should ...
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Is there any way to kill a Thread?
Is it possible to terminate a running thread without setting/checking any flags/semaphores/etc.?
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Cannot start a ThreadPoolExecutor inside a threading.Thread function
In this example, Tkinter GUI starts ThreadPoolExecutor. But ThreadPoolExecutor is inside a threading.Thread function. The thread function says it's finished
before ThreadPoolExecutor has started ... ...
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How to get the return value from a thread?
The function foo below returns a string 'foo'. How can I get the value 'foo' which is returned from the thread's target?
from threading import Thread
def foo(bar):
print('hello {}'.format(bar))
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import sentence_transformers hangs on macOS with [mutex.cc] RAW: Lock blocking error
I'm encountering a persistent issue where importing the sentence_transformers library on macOS causes my Python script to hang indefinitely. When the script hangs, the only output I see is a low-level ...
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Threading or asyncio for serial communications?
I'm running some serial commands to test connected devices under test (DUTs), & we have a need to run these in parallel/concurrently to speed up our tests. I would like some feedback on which ...
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OSX does not display the names of free-threaded python threads [duplicate]
I am running free-threaded python3.13t with PYTHON_GIL=0 on MacOS Sequoia 15.7.
I create threads like this:
thread = threading.Thread(target=lambda: time.sleep(10), name="test-thread")
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ThreadPoolExecutor is running the functions in sequence, not in parallel [duplicate]
We run a bunch of wireless controllers (mc's) and I want to use the controller API to transfer firmware via TFTP to each controller in preparation for an upgrade (the API call needs to be run on each ...
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Timeout on a function call
I'm calling a function in Python which I know may stall and force me to restart the script.
How do I call the function or what do I wrap it in so that if it takes longer than 5 seconds the script ...
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What happens to the asyncio event loop when multiple CPU-bound tasks run concurrently in a ThreadPoolExecutor given Python’s GIL?
I'm working on an asynchronous Python application (using FastAPI/Starlette/asyncio) that needs to offload synchronous, CPU-bound tasks to a thread pool (ThreadPoolExecutor) to avoid blocking the event ...
