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Explore how to use Python's Event objects to synchronize threads effectively. Understand the internal boolean flag mechanism, learn to coordinate multiple threads, and see practical examples including a prime number printing program using event-driven threading.

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Events

An event object is one of the simplest primitives available for synchronization. Internally, it has a boolean flag that can be set or unset using the methods set() and clear(). Additionally, a thread can check if the flag is set to true by invoking the is_set() method.

The event object exposes a ...