Make A Thread Wait For Either A Timer Or A Signal?

I am writing a Multithreaded Python application, in which each thread should wake up under the following circumstances: A signal from a main thread A Timer call started by itself

Solution 1:

Well, threading.Event, has a wait method, which takes a timeout. So you could do something as simple as

In main thread:

sleepEvent = threading.Event()

pass that to your other threads, and in them:

sleepEvent.wait(10) # wait for up to 10 seconds

Now your thread will either wait 10 seconds (like a timer) or will clear the wait if the main thread calls

sleepEvent.set()