issues with doctest and threads

[jepler at unpythonic.net]

I don't see the problem with your doctest usage, but what makes you believe that
the code you show below produces exactly 9 dots?

strangely enough, re-working the code to this
>>> import time, threading
>>> def example():
...     thread.out = []
...     for i in range(9): thread.out.append(".")
>>> thread = threading.Thread(None, example)
>>> thread.running = True; thread.start()
>>> time.sleep(.1)
>>> thread.running = False
>>> print thread.out
['.', '.', '.', '.', '.', '.', '.', '.', '.']
makes the test "succeed" (though it can fail for some of the same reasons the
original test isn't guaranteed to give 9 dots either).

Jeff
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