PCPP1 Networking And Restful Apis Practice Question
You are developing a multithreaded HTTP scraper. When using the 'requests' library inside 'threading.Thread' objects, what is the recommended practice for handling session persistence?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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Initialize a new Session object inside each thread's run method
Requests.Session objects are not thread-safe in a way that prevents race conditions on connection pools. Each thread should ideally have its own session or a thread-safe connection pool mechanism.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
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Initialize a new Session object inside each thread's run method
Why this is correct
Creating a local session per thread ensures thread safety for the connection pool.
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Wrap the session object in a threading.Lock
Why it's wrong here
Locks would serialize access, negating the benefits of multithreading.
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Share a single global Session object across all threads
Why it's wrong here
This can lead to race conditions and unpredictable behavior in connection pooling.
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Disable connection pooling using 'pool_connections=0'
Why it's wrong here
This negates the performance benefits of using a Session.
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Last reviewed August 2026 · checked against the official Python Institute exam blueprint
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