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Automation & scripting easy

Stress CPU Threads with a Mock Compute in Python

Simulates CPU-intensive work across multiple threads to test how Python schedules parallel compute.

threading cpu-stress parallelism
Python
import threading
import time


def stress_cpu(iterations: int):
    result = 0
    for i in range(iterations):
        result += i * i % 1000
    return result


def run_mock_stress(thread_count: int, iterations: int):
    threads = []
    for tid in range(thread_count):
        t = threading.Thread(target=lambda: str…
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Data pipelines & processing easy

Parallel Extract Multiple Sources with Threads in Python

Extract data from multiple sources in parallel using ThreadPoolExecutor and verify results match sequential processing.

threads threadpoolexecutor concurrency
Python
import threading
from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor

def extract_from_source(source):
    """Simulate extracting data from a source."""
    return f"Data from {source}"

def main():
    sources = ["source_a", "source_b", "source_c", "source_d"]
    
    # Sequential extraction for comparison
    sequent…
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Concurrency & performance easy

How to Use ThreadPoolExecutor in Python for Parallel Processing

Use ThreadPoolExecutor with executor.map to run a function over many inputs concurrently and collect ordered results.

concurrency threadpoolexecutor parallel
Python
def worker(item):
    return item * item

if __name__ == "__main__":
    from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor
    numbers = list(range(1, 11))
    with ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=4) as executor:
        results = list(executor.map(worker, numbers))
    print("Input:  ", numbers)
    print("Results:", …
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Concurrency & performance easy

How to Use ThreadPoolExecutor.submit() in Python

Exécute des fonctions en parallèle avec ThreadPoolExecutor.submit(), récupère les résultats avec future.result(), et traite plusieurs tâches simultanément en Python standard.

concurrency threads threadpoolexecutor
Python
from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor
import time

def square(n):
    time.sleep(0.1)  # Simulate work
    return n * n

if __name__ == "__main__":
    with ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=3) as executor:
        future = executor.submit(square, 5)
        result = future.result()
        print(f"Result: {r…
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Concurrency & performance easy

How to Use threading.Lock to Synchronize a Counter in Python

Safely increment a shared counter across multiple threads using threading.Lock as a mutex to prevent race conditions.

threading lock mutex
Python
import threading

counter = 0
lock = threading.Lock()

def increment():
    global counter
    for _ in range(100000):
        with lock:
            counter += 1

threads = [threading.Thread(target=increment) for _ in range(5)]
for t in threads:
    t.start()
for t in threads:
    t.join()

print(f"Final counter valu…
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Concurrency & performance easy

How to Validate Data with ThreadPoolExecutor in Python

This code shows how to validate a list of numbers concurrently using ThreadPoolExecutor, dramatically speeding up slow validation tasks by running them in parallel threads.

concurrency threadpool validation
Python
import time
from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor
from dataclasses import dataclass


@dataclass
class Result:
    is_valid: bool
    value: int


def validate(value: int) -> Result:
    time.sleep(0.1)  # simulate slow validation (API call, DB check)
    return Result(is_valid=0 < value < 100, value=value…
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Concurrency & performance easy

How to start, join, and make daemon threads in Python

Starts one daemon and one non-daemon thread, joins the non-daemon thread, and shows how daemon threads exit when the main program ends.

threading daemon join
Python
import threading
import time
import logging

logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO, format="%(threadName)s: %(message)s")

def worker(name, delay):
    for i in range(3):
        time.sleep(delay)
        logging.info(f"{name} step {i}")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    daemon_thread = threading.Thread(
        target…
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Concurrency & performance easy

Synchronize Threads with a Barrier in Python

Demonstrates using threading.Barrier to synchronize multiple threads at phase boundaries, ensuring all workers wait for each other before proceeding.

threading synchronization barrier
Python
import threading
import time
from random import randint

def worker(barrier, worker_id):
    for phase in range(3):
        time.sleep(randint(1, 3))
        print(f"Worker {worker_id} finished phase {phase} at {time.time():.2f}")
        barrier.wait()
    print(f"Worker {worker_id}: all phases complete")

if __name_…
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Concurrency & performance easy

Thread-Safe Producer Consumer Queue in Python

A producer-consumer pattern using thread-safe queue.Queue with two threads, demonstrating safe communication and synchronized task completion.

queue threading producer-consumer
Python
import queue
import threading
import time
import random


def producer(q, item_count):
    for i in range(item_count):
        item = random.randint(1, 100)
        q.put(item)
        print(f"Producer added: {item}")
        time.sleep(0.1)


def consumer(q):
    while True:
        try:
            item = q.get(time…
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