use of events between python threads

Question

I'm starting to learn writing multithreaded python code. In particular I'm trying to use events between thread. For some reason the code below is not working and I can't find out why. Do you have any suggestion? Thank you in advance!

import threading
import time

e1 = threading.Event()

def counting_thread():
    x=0
    while 1:
        print(x)
        if x==5:
            e1.set
        x=x+1
        if x==11:
            x=0
        time.sleep(1)

def speaking_thread():
    while not e1.wait():
        print('You just said five!')

t1 = threading.Thread(target=counting_thread)
t1.start()

t2 = threading.Thread(target=speaking_thread)
t2.start()

Answer 1

You didn't actually call the set method.

    if x==5:
        e1.set()