Checking on a thread / remove from list

Better way is to use Queue class: http://docs.python.org/library/queue.html

Look at the good example code in the bottom of documentation page:

def worker():
    while True:
        item = q.get()
        do_work(item)
        q.task_done()

q = Queue()
for i in range(num_worker_threads):
     t = Thread(target=worker)
     t.daemon = True
     t.start()

for item in source():
    q.put(item)

q.join()       # block until all tasks are done

you need to call thread.isAlive()to find out if the thread is still running

mythreads = threading.enumerate()

Enumerate returns a list of all Thread objects still alive. https://docs.python.org/3.6/library/threading.html

As TokenMacGuy says, you should use thread.is_alive() to check if a thread is still running. To remove no longer running threads from your list you can use a list comprehension:

for t in my_threads:
    if not t.is_alive():
        # get results from thread
        t.handled = True
my_threads = [t for t in my_threads if not t.handled]

This avoids the problem of removing items from a list while iterating over it.