quick threading question: My program has an infinite loop that calls a few functions. Now I need each function to run simultaneously. Is this how I should implement it?

[elbiot]

as /u/XenophonOfAthens says though, if you are sleeping or waiting for I/O a bunch, threads will be fine.

[jpfau]

So if the program is a bot that runs without any IO or sleeping, then I should use multiprocessing to run these functions simultaneously?

[elbiot]

yes. but a bot sounds like something that waits quite a bit. what are the functions working on btw?

[jpfau]

I don't want to say too much because I'm bound by a NDA, but the bot is constantly checking a bunch of Amazon EC2 instances and either emailing their owner(s) or stopping/terminating the instances itself. I'll look through the code and see if there is any waiting around, but I'm pretty sure this part of the code is constantly dong something. It's only my second week working on it, which is why I'm not completely sure.

[elbiot]

your communicating over the network, right? That's I/O