exiting threads

[Dale Burnett]

In article <8jfiuj$lf1$1 at slb1.atl.mindspring.net>,
  aahz at netcom.com (Aahz Maruch) wrote:
> In article <8jfcf9$2rp$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>,
> Dale Burnett  <denalione at my-deja.com> wrote:
> >
> >I am using thread.start_new_thread(self.foo,(x,y))
> >
> >Do I have to explicitly exit the thread or does it automatically exit
> >when foo returns?
>
> I believe it does, but I strongly recommend that you subclass
> threading.Thread instead.
> --
>
why?  because of the greater functionality of threading or is there
something wrong with thread?


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