a very newbie question about threading

[Mike Meyer]

chrispatton at gmail.com (Chris Patton) writes:

> I've recenently stumbled upon a concept known as "threading". Can
> anyone tell me what this IS and how it is used, or show me where I can
> get information about this?

Now that you know what they are - be warned that they tend to be a
source of very hard to track down bugs. If you can avoid writing
threaded code, do so. One common use of threads is to handle multiple
IO streams at one time. Asyncore is a much saner solution to that
problem.

        <mike
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