max time threads

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pacopyc wrote:
> Hi, I'm trying to work with threads and I need your help. This is
> code:
> 
> from threading import Thread
> from Queue import Queue
> import time
> import random
> 
> def test_fun (k,q,t):
>     time.sleep(t)
>     print "hello world from thread " + str(q.get()) + " (sleep time =
> " + str(t) + " sec.)"
>     q.task_done()
> 
> queue = Queue()
> for i in range (1,10):
>     queue.put(i)
> for j in range(queue.qsize()):
>     num = random.randint(1,30)
>     worker = Thread(target=test_fun, args=(j,queue,num))
>     worker.setDaemon(True)
>     worker.start()
> queue.join()
> 
> 
> Execution:
> 
> hello world from thread 1 (sleep time = 5 sec.)
> hello world from thread 2 (sleep time = 5 sec.)
> hello world from thread 3 (sleep time = 6 sec.)
> hello world from thread 4 (sleep time = 8 sec.)
> hello world from thread 5 (sleep time = 10 sec.)
> hello world from thread 6 (sleep time = 13 sec.)
> hello world from thread 7 (sleep time = 18 sec.)
> hello world from thread 8 (sleep time = 19 sec.)
> hello world from thread 9 (sleep time = 20 sec.)
> 
> Some questions for you:
> 
> 1) Why order is always the same (thread 1, thread 2, thread 3 ....
> thread 9) and also seconds are always increasing? I don't understand.
> 2) I'd like to decide a max time for each thread. If max time = 7 sec.
> I want to print only threads with sleep time <= 7 sec. How can I do?
> Can you modify my code?
> 
> Thank you very much

1)

First it puts the numbers 1..9 into 'queue', then it starts 9 threads,
giving each a number 'num'.

Each thread waits for 'num' seconds ('t' in the thread).

The thread with the lowest value of 'num' wakes first, gets the first
entry from 'queue' (the value 1), and therefore prints "thread 1".

The thread with the second-lowest value of 'num' wakes next, gets the
second entry from 'queue' (the value 2), and therefore prints "thread
2".

And so on.

2)

If a thread is given a value of 'num' of more than a maximum, that
thread shouldn't print its output, but it should still get the entry
from the queue (assuming that you want it to still behave the same
otherwise).