Introduction to Synchronization
Explore how to synchronize threads in Python to coordinate access to shared data and ensure proper communication. Understand key concepts through examples involving resource sharing and the producer-consumer problem to avoid conflicts and mixed outputs in multithreaded programs.
In a multithreaded application, we might need to coordinate (synchronize) the activities of the threads running in it.
The need to synchronize the activities of threads can arise in two situations:
- When data or other resources have to be shared amongst threads.
- When we need to carry out communication between threads.
Examples of sharing resources
Example 1
Suppose a function has a statement n = n + 1. Here, the value of n is read, 1 is added to it, and the result is ...