Is there a problem with inheriting from threading.Thread without actually starting the thread?

Question

I\'ve created a Python class which inherits from threading.Thread, instances of which may not actually be run as a new thread (because the start() meth

Answer 1

In my view a slightly cleaner design would be to not inherit your class from threading.Thread, but keep its run method as-is.

Now:

• if you don't need threading, you can continue to use your class as you do currently;
• if you do need threading, create a new Thread object, setting the target= constructor argument to your object's run method.