threading support in python

[Daniel Dittmar]

Rob Williscroft wrote:
> Daniel Dittmar wrote in news:edhl07$b2t$1 at news.sap-ag.de in 
> comp.lang.python:
> 
> 
>>- removing reference counting and relying on garbage collection alone 
>>will break many Python applications (because they rely on files being 
>>closed at end of scope etc.)
>>
> 
> 
> They are already broken on at least 2 python implementations, so
> why worry about another one.

I guess few applications or libraries are being ported from CPython to 
Jython or IronPython as each is targeting a different standard library, 
so this isn't that much of a problem yet.

Daniel