[New-bugs-announce] [issue22013] Add at least minimal support for thread groups

[Raymond Hettinger]

New submission from Raymond Hettinger:

Currently, threading.Thread requires that group=None pending implementation of a ThreadGroup class such as that described in http://www.javaworld.com/article/2074481

This has been an open todo for very long time, possibly because it may be too big of a task to implement all the features including subgroups.

I think we can implement a small but useful set of features without too much difficultly:

path_explorers = threading.ThreadGroup('path_explorers')
for path in paths:
    threading.Thread(path_explorers, explore, (path,))
for thread in path_explorers: # enumerate unfinished explorers
    print(thread)
path_explorers.start()        # begin parallel search
path_explorers.join()         # wait for group to finish
print("Result:", best_path)

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 223498
nosy: rhettinger
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: needs patch
status: open
title: Add at least minimal support for thread groups
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.5

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