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Explore the use of Event objects in Python threading to coordinate multiple threads with synchronization primitives. Understand how the internal boolean flag controls thread waits and unblocking, and see practical examples including a prime number printer using events.

Events

An event object is one of the simplest primitives available for synchronization. Internally, it has a boolean flag that can be set or unset using the methods set() and clear(). Additionally, a thread can check if the flag is set to true by invoking the is_set() method.

The event object exposes a wait() method ...