Can I start asynchronous threads in .pythonrc?

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <etdg0coh202.fsf at lola-granola.mit.edu>,
Alex  <new_name at mit.edu> wrote:
>
>I have some slightly time consuming administrative stuff that I'm doing
>to my source tree each time I start python.  I'm running it in my
>.pythonrc file, which means there's a delay of a few seconds before I
>get the python prompt.  Is there any way to get stuff in my .pythonrc to
>run in the background?

Why not just create a cron job?  There's no intrinsic reason you
couldn't use threads, but I'm not sure this is a good use.
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