need some help with threading module...

[M.E.Farmer]

Steve Holden wrote:
[snip]
>Could be the OP is using Cygwin, which won't support threading by
>default and will give very confusing results

Thanks Steve,
Well your guess was better then mine :)
I didn't know Cygwin did not support threads by default , I will have
to remember that.
Why do you suppose he is having problems with this on Linux?
I am not on a Linux box to test it.
M.E.Farmer