[Python-Dev] Threading in the Standard Library Tour Part II

[Aahz]

On Mon, Aug 16, 2004, Bob Ippolito wrote:
> On Aug 15, 2004, at 11:59 PM, Aahz wrote:
>>On Sun, Aug 15, 2004, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>>>
>>>Many platform GUIs require that all or most all GUI activities be
>>>consolidated to one and only one thread.  I don't think any of them
>>>'care' if another thread is also running, but it can't communicate
>>>directly with the GUI.
>>
>>That's true, but it also applies to other external resources, such as
>>files.
> 
> Maybe I don't understand what you're saying.. but I don't know any 
> platform that forces you to work with files from one and only one 
> specific thread.  But I definitely do know at least one platform where 
> you may only perform most GUI operations from the main thread of 
> execution.

For any one file handle, you use only one thread.  It just happens in
the case of GUIs that there is only one GUI handle.
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