Are Generators Threadsafe?

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It’s not thread-safe; simultaneous calls may interleave, and mess with the local variables.

The common approach is to use the master-slave pattern (now called farmer-worker pattern in PC). Make a third thread which generates data, and add a Queue between the master and the slaves, where slaves will read from the queue, and the master will write to it. The standard queue module provides the necessary thread safety and arranges to block the master until the slaves are ready to read more data.

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