Interesting Thread Gotcha

[Sion Arrowsmith]

Diez B. Roggisch <deets at nospam.web.de> wrote:
>Of course start_new_thread could throw an error if it got nothing callable
>as first argument. No idea why it doesn't.

It does:

>>> thread.start_new_thread(None, None)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
TypeError: first arg must be callable

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