using threads with python and winnt

[Tim Peters]

[Tim, on the now fixed but still possible in 1.5.2 thread death
    Fatal Python error: PyThreadState_Delete: invalid tstate
]

[Aahz Maruch]
> Thanks.  That's exactly the error we're seeing, shortly
> after we made a recent increase in the number of running threads.

You're welcome -- but still a bummer.  Switching to a thread pool should
make it as unlikely as a Minnesota winter without snow.

Shortly after this got fixed, there was talk of putting together a bugfix
patch for 1.5.2 (with this & a few others).  Alas, nobody volunteered the
work to actually do it.  This is the rarely acknowledged Dark Side of the
Open Source.

this-is-not-the-bug-you're-looking-for-move-along-
     move-along-ly y'rs  - tim