How to pause and resume a thread using the threading module?

I have a long process that I've scheduled to run in a thread, because otherwise it will freeze the UI in my wxpython application.

I'm using:

threading.Thread(target=myLongProcess).start()

to start the thread and it works, but I don't know how to pause and resume the thread. I looked in the Python docs for the above methods, but wasn't able to find them.

Could anyone suggest how I could do this?