Summary of threading for experienced non-Python programmers?

[Paul Rubin]

sturlamolden <sturlamolden at yahoo.no> writes:
> Python's standard library should have an asynch module that uses aio
> on Linux and i/o completion ports on Windows. It should work with
> files and tcp sockets alike.

Lately I'm hearing that Linux's aio implementation doesn't work very
well yet.  It is fairly recent.  It's possible that BSD's or Solaris's
versions are better.