I created a code that shows a real time clock at the beginning (works by a loop and refreshing itself in every 1 sec using \r ) But I want to run the rest of the code while the clock is ticking (continuously). But this isn't going any further while the loop is running. I think there is no need to write the code of the clock.
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3You can try multi-threading..Somayyeh– Somayyeh2019-06-30 05:21:52 +00:00Commented Jun 30, 2019 at 5:21
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If you want to have a task running, while using another you can use multi-threading. This means you tell your processor two different tasks and it will be continued as long as you tell it to work. See here a post about multithreading and multiprocessing. You can use the thread function of python for this.
Here a small example:
import threading
import time
# Define a function for the thread
def print_time( threadName, delay):
count = 0
while count < 10:
time.sleep(delay)
count += 1
print ("%s: %s" % ( threadName, time.ctime(time.time()) ))
def counter(threadName, number_of_counts, delay):
count=0
while count < number_of_counts:
print ("%s: %s" % ( threadName, count))
time.sleep(delay)
count +=1
# Create two threads as follows
threading.Thread(target=print_time, args=("Thread-1", 1, )).start()
threading.Thread(target=counter, args=("Thread-2", 100, 0.1,)).start()
for further information check the documentation. Note that thread has been renamed to _thread in python 3
