threading support in python

[Rob Williscroft]

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.

Rob.
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