Target Audience:
Python programmers who want to use threads to speed up or create more responsive applications. Participants should be comfortable with Python classes.

Tutorial Goal:
Participants will learn the basics of threaded programming in Python, emphasizing practical techniques for quickly creating threaded applications rather than theory.

Tutorial Outline:

• Introduction
  • Thread concepts
  • Python Threads
  • Global Interpreter Lock
• Python Thread Library
  • Lock, RLock, Semaphore, Condition, Event, Queue
• Application examples
  • Web spider (brute force threads and thread pool)
  • TKinter (background thread)