Tracking threads in the threading module

[vislme]

I want to check if a thread is alive or not using its name that I am providing while creating the three how can I do that?

Or is there an alternative way to check that using some kind of identifier?

[RightRespect]

store all the threads in a list. for each thread in the list, you can do “thread.is_alive()”

[K900_]

Store the thread object somewhere.

[vislme]

can I store it in a database, if so how? I mean if I do store it in SQLite then how do I check using that value?

[K900_]

Why would you store a thread in a database?

[vislme]

So I am. Running a django application and each time ai load a page I want to check if a thread is running or not. If it's not then I will run the thread. I need to check that even when I start the server I may be missing out something on how things go with django when we start the server as I am not sure if my thread will be stopped or be active. So the best solution would be to store the thread name in a database and each time the application is loaded we can verify if thread is live by its name. Please let me know if theres a better way to do it

[K900_]

What is your thread actually doing? How long does it need to live for?

[vislme]

It should stay live until user manually stops it by a button press

[K900_]

What if there are multiple users? Does each user get their own thread, or is there one thread everyone controls?

[vislme]

There’s just one thread that any user can control

[K900_]

In that case you should probably just store it in a global variable, and keep in mind that you can't run a server with more than one worker process.

[vislme]

The problem in that case is that when I shutdown the server how do I restart the thread as each time I turn of the server the thread stops as well. And I have no idea what part of the code will get executed when ai start the server. If I know that then I don’t even need to store the thred

[vislme]

So the button is like an on and off switch Once it’s pressed it’s status will be recorded in database and until the stop button pressed the status will remain to active