Op 2004-12-12, Tim Peters schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I think you'd have to ask Brett (who did most of the work on > dummy_thread and dummy_threading). It doesn't really matter, though: > it's a general truth that starting a thread as a side effect of > importing is a recipe for deadlock, and hacking specific methods and > functions to avoid imports just moves the problem around. It's not a > goal that anything in the standard Python library cater to bad thread > practice here (the bad thread practice being, again, starting a thread > as a side effect of importing).
I don't see why starting a thread as a side effect of importing is bad thread practice. Sure python doesn't cater for it, but IMO that seems to be python failing. -- Antoon Pardon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
