Threads, again

Aahz Maruch aahz at panix.com
Thu Oct 19 01:17:13 EDT 2000


In article <dzsH5.153671$Qx4.5060109 at news1.rdc1.il.home.com>,
Alex McHale <daimun at home.com> wrote:
>
>This may be a bit of a dumb question - but I, for the life of me, can't
>understand why, when using the thread module, start_new_thread will only
>pass a tuple of arguments to the function.  Can anyone explain this to me?
>Does this mean any function I want to thread, has to take 3 arguments?

I'll answer that question if you want, but I strongly suggest that you
use the threading module instead -- it'll make your life easier.
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