thread.join()

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/thread-ex1.py b/thread-ex1.py
index 522f535..ffafbfd 100644
--- a/thread-ex1.py
+++ b/thread-ex1.py
@@ -2,32 +2,39 @@ import threading
 import time
 
 exitFlag = 0
+incrementme = 0
 
-class myThread (threading.Thread):
+class myThread(threading.Thread):
    def __init__(self, threadID, name, counter):
       threading.Thread.__init__(self, name=name)
       self.threadID = threadID
       #self.name = name
       self.counter = counter
    def run(self):
-      print("Starting " + self.name)
-      print_time(self.name, 5, self.counter)
+      print("Starting " + self.name + " at: " + time.ctime(time.time()))
+      print_time(self.name, self.counter, 1) # delay fixed to 1 second for simplicity
       print("Exiting " + self.name)
 
 def print_time(threadName, counter, delay):
+   global incrementme
    while counter:
       if exitFlag:
          threadName.exit()
       time.sleep(delay)
       print("%s: %s" % (threadName, time.ctime(time.time())))
       counter -= 1
+      incrementme = incrementme + 1
 
 # Create new threads
-thread1 = myThread(1, "Thread-One", 1)
-thread2 = myThread(2, "Thread-Two", 2)
+thread1 = myThread(1, "Thread-One", 5)
+thread2 = myThread(2, "Thread-Two", 10)
 
 # Start new Threads
 thread1.start()
 thread2.start()
 
+thread1.join() # .join() will wait for thread to finish, otherwise script will race till the end and result will be 0
+thread2.join()
+print(f"result is: {incrementme}")
+
 print("End of Program. Exiting Main Thread")
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