How come I can't get get my background thread to output anything?

[grocery_stocker]

On Apr 9, 7:01 pm, grocery_stocker <cdal... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 9, 6:36 pm, grocery_stocker <cdal... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Given the following....
>
> > #!/usr/local/bin/python
>
> > import os
> > import time
> > import thread
>
> > def domsg(string, sleeptime, *args):
> >     print "%s was here", string
> >     #os.system('tel %s test' % person);
> >     #time.sleep(sleeptime)
>
> > def buildlist():
> >     out = 1
> >     persons = []
>
> >     while(out != 0):
> >         pern = raw_input("Enter person to message:")
> >         if (len(pern)):
> >             persons.append(pern)
> >         else:
> >             out = 0
> >     return persons
>
> > if __name__ == "__main__":
> >     #buildlist()
> >     thread.start_new_thread(domsg, ("person",2))
>
> > I get....
> > m-net% ./massmsg.py
> > m-net%
>
> > I was expecting to see
>
> > person  was here

 Never mind. When i add while 1:pass like in the following

thread.start_new_thread(domsg, ("person",2))
while 1 : pass

the code works as expected