Can't suspend a thread?

[Tim Roberts]

aahz at pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote:
>
>Robert Oschler <Oschler at earthlink.net> wrote:
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>>I was hoping to have a master thread that woke up and suspended several
>>other threads dynamically, as needed.  From the books I have, that seems to
>>be impossible in Python?  Is this true?  If so, is there a workaround?
>
>Threads suspend themselves; they can be woken up by other threads.

It is worth pointing out that this "restriction" is not a Python thing; it
is an operating system thing.
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