On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 7:35 AM Matt <matt.mailingli...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am using this example for threading in Python: > > from threading import Thread > > def start_test( address, port ): > print address, port > sleep(1) > > for line in big_list: > t = Thread(target=start_test, args=(line, 80)) > t.start() > > But say big_list has thousands of items and I only want to have a > maximum of 10 threads open. How do work my way through the big_list > with only 10 threads for example?
First off, it is high time you move to Python 3, as the older versions of Python have reached end-of-life. The best way is to create your ten threads, and have each one request "jobs" (for whatever definition of job you have) from a queue. Once the queue is exhausted, the threads terminate cleanly, and then you can join() each thread to wait for the entire queue to be completed. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
