Multithreading / multiprocess

[Diez B. Roggisch]

tleeuwenburg at gmail.com schrieb:
> Is there anyway to begin a thread and execute a finite number of lines
> of code, or a finite amount of time within it?
> 
> For example, say I create three child threads and I want to guarantee
> equal timeshare between them, can I specify a quanta (say 400 LOC
> although I know that is pretty small) to execute in each one in turn?

Not as such, no. You can play tricks with the trace-module, but these 
ultimately fail when the code in question runs inside C - which puts a 
stop to any python interpreter scheduling anyway, thus native threads 
are used which can't be controlled on that level.


Diez