Python in-memory cache with time to live

Question

I have multiple threads running the same process that need to be able to to notify each other that something should not be worked on for the next n seconds its not the end o

Answer 1

You can use the expiringdict module:

The core of the library is ExpiringDict class which is an ordered dictionary with auto-expiring values for caching purposes.

In the description they do not talk about multithreading, so in order not to mess up, use a Lock.