Creating multiple threads

Event( )
A factory function that returns a new event object. An event manages a flag that can be set to true with the set() method and reset to false with the clear() method. The wait() method blocks until the flag is true.

The Queue module implements a multi-producer, multi-consumer FIFO queue. It is especially useful in threads programming when information must be exchanged safely between multiple threads. The Queue class in this module implements all the required locking semantics. It depends on the availability of thread support in Python.

I prefer using thread objects from the threading module (threading.thread). They work quite well and have thread-safe means of signaling, as in:...

All the examples I have seen for threading module has the same function doing the same operation with multiple threads. But in my case, I need to call three different functions and I am not sure if I can use the threading module

Am I missing something really basic here ?

The "target" argument of the thread creation method can be any function that you wish. In that function you would loop until signaled by one means or another by the main thread. In this simple example, there is no loop at all:

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1. >>> def FuncToRunAsThread():
2. ...     print "I ran"
3. ...     
4. >>> import threading
5. >>> t = threading.Thread(target=FuncToRunAsThread)
6. >>> t.start()
7. I ran
8. >>> 

I'll work up a slightly more complex example for you shortly.