python threading模块中的join()方法和setDeamon()方法的一些理解

之前用多线程的时候看见了很多文章，比较常用的大概就是join()和setDeamon()了。

先说一下自己对join()的理解吧：

def join(self, timeout=None):
    """Wait until the thread terminates.

    This blocks the calling thread until the thread whose join() method is
    called terminates -- either normally or through an unhandled exception
    or until the optional timeout occurs.

    When the timeout argument is present and not None, it should be a
    floating point number specifying a timeout for the operation in seconds
    (or fractions thereof). As join() always returns None, you must call
    isAlive() after join() to decide whether a timeout happened -- if the
    thread is still alive, the join() call timed out.

    When the timeout argument is not present or None, the operation will
    block until the thread terminates.

    A thread can be join()ed many times.

    join() raises a RuntimeError if an attempt is made to join the current
    thread as that would cause a deadlock. It is also an error to join() a
    thread before it has been started and attempts to do so raises the same
    exception.

    """
源码的__doc__其实说的很清楚，join()会阻塞调用该线程的线程，知道该线程结束（This blocks the calling thread 
until the thread whose join() method is called terminates）。
注意点：

#coding:utf-8
import threading
import time

def action(arg):
    time.sleep(1)
    print  'sub thread start!the thread name is:%s    ' % threading.currentThread().getName()
    print 'the arg is:%s   ' %arg
    time.sleep(1)

#不正确写法，会导致多线程顺序执行，失去了多线程的意义
for i in xrange(4):
    t =threading.Thread(target=action,args=(i,))
    t.setDaemon(True)
    t.start()
    t.join()

#正确写法
thread_list = []    #线程存放列表
for i in xrange(4):
    t =threading.Thread(target=action,args=(i,))
    t.setDaemon(True)
    thread_list.append(t)

for t in thread_list:
    t.start()

for t in thread_list:
    t.join()

print 'main_thread end!'

下面再说一下setDeamon()吧：

其实主线程并不会结束setDeamon(True)的线程，而是当主线程执行完毕之后不会再去关注setDeamon(True)的线程。

所以setDeamon(True)的线程的结果是我们无法获取到的，类似于爱咋咋地？不管你输出什么，我都不看，主线程跑

完就结束整个python process。

而setDeamon(False)的线程会一直受到主线程的关注，就算主线程跑完了也会等setDeamon(False)的线程跑完然后

再结束整个python process。

所以说，就算setDeamon(True)的线程在主线程之后跑完，但如果在setDeamon(False)的线程之前跑完的话，也是会

输出结果的，而不是被所谓的主线程结束就杀死setDeamon(False)的线程。

附上我的调试代码，

# -*- coding:utf-8 -*-

import threading
import time

stime = time.time()

def action(arg):
    time.sleep(1)
    print ('the arg is:%s,time is %s   ' % (arg, time.time()))

def action1(arg):
    time.sleep(1)
    print ('the arg is:%s,time is %s   ' % (arg, time.time()))

thread_list = []  # 线程存放列表
for i in [777, 888]:
    t = threading.Thread(target=action, args=(i,))
    t.setDaemon(False)
    thread_list.append(t)
for i in range(10):
    t = threading.Thread(target=action1, args=(i,))
    t.setDaemon(True)
    thread_list.append(t)

for t in thread_list:
    t.start()

print('**************')
etime = time.time()
print('time cost is %s' % (etime - stime))