multithreading on Linux

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <8p0rbt$eab$1 at paradise.nirvananet>,
Hartmann Schaffer <hs at paradise.nirvananet> wrote:
>In article <8p0g2v$cul$1 at panix3.panix.com>, Aahz Maruch <aahz at panix.com> wrote:
>>
>>Multi-threading is supported and you can rely on it -- provided that you
>>have compiled Python using --with-thread.  Unfortunately, that's not the
>>default option in current shipping versions of Python, so the Python
>>included on shipping Linux distributions is *NOT* thread-enabled.  This
>
>doesn't that depend on the linux distribution?  i use debian, and had
>no problems using threads with the included python package.

I wasn't aware of that.  That makes the situation even more complicated
than I had imagined....
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