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# ``twisted`.`_threads`.`ThreadWorker``

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`class ThreadWorker: (source)`

Implements interfaces: `twisted._threads._ithreads.IExclusiveWorker`

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An `IExclusiveWorker` implemented based on a single thread and a queue.

This worker ensures exclusivity (i.e. it is an `IExclusiveWorker` and not an `IWorker`) by performing all of the work passed to `do` on the same thread.

Method | `__init__` | Create a `ThreadWorker` with a function to start a thread and a queue to use to communicate with that thread.
Method | `do` | Perform the given task on the thread owned by this `ThreadWorker`.
Method | `quit` | Reject all future work and stop the thread started by `__init__`.
Instance Variable | `_hasQuit` | Undocumented
Instance Variable | `_q` | Undocumented

def __init__(self, startThread, queue): (source)

Create a `ThreadWorker` with a function to start a thread and a queue to use to communicate with that thread.

Parameters
startThread:callable taking a 0-argument callable and returning nothing. | a callable that takes a callable to run in another thread.
queue:`Queue` | A `Queue` to use to give tasks to the thread created by `startThread`.

def do(self, task): (source)
from `twisted._threads.IWorker`

Perform the given task on the thread owned by this `ThreadWorker`.

Parameters
task | the function to call on a thread.

def quit(self): (source)
from `twisted._threads.IWorker`

Reject all future work and stop the thread started by `__init__`.

_hasQuit = (source)

Undocumented

_q = (source)

Undocumented