theads & global namespaces

[ze5yr]

In article <7ldqi2$nc1$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>,
  rdev at my-deja.com wrote:

> - If you're running on Solaris, the thread won't get to run
> unless you give up some time.  So try putting a time.sleep(.001)
> into your while loop.  On NT, this is not necessary (don't know
> why.)

It works on NT, but the looping thread will eat up horrendous amounts
of CPU time (at least it does if under pthreads, don't know if Python
threads would do the same).  So it's a good idea to use time.sleep
under NT as well.

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