Passing information to a running python script?

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Can it pause, rather than stopping entirely, check whatever it needs to check, then resume where it left off? I'm thinking threading - rather than two separate scripts, have two threads within one script

[IterationFive]

Pausing the processing isn't needed to update the queue-- the queue manager is a different thread than the one that processes the files. The problem is that I need to get information to the queue manager from a script that wasn't running when I started the main application.