print statement and multithreading

[Tim Peters]

[Paul Duffin]
> ...
> When you say that Python will support "The C Standard" you
> need to have an exact definition (URL) of the standard,

It's very rare that ANSI or ISO will make a current std available for free
over the web, or allow anyone else to do so; they hold copyrights on their
stds, they enforce them, and they rely on income from selling hardcopy.

> "ANSI C" is not sufficient because otherwise everybody will
> have a different idea of what constitutes "ANSI C".

"ANSI C" is universally taken to mean the version of the language as defined
by the American National Standards Institute, working committee X3J11, in
1989, and as amended by a Technical Corrigendum sometime in the mid-90's.
Before late 1999, there was no ambiguity here as that was the *only* C
standard.

Then a new version of C (informally known as C9X while it was in progress,
and C99 now) was jointly adopted by ANSI and ISO.  Despite that there are no
implementations of C99 yet, since C99 *is* "the current" ISO/ANSI C std,
that's the version ANSI sells today.  If you want to get "the old" ANSI C
std, you can still buy it from Global Engineering in hardcopy, for
US$148(!).  It was never made available in electronic form.  Go to:

    http://www.global.ihs.com/

and search for ANSI X3.159.  An excellent free overview can be found at:

     http://www-ccs.ucsd.edu/c/

The cheapest way to get the *current* std I know of is to buy it in PDF form
direct from ANSI, for US$18; go to

    http://webstore.ansi.org/ansidocstore/dept.asp

and look near the bottom for ANSI/ISO/IEC 9899-1999, "Programming
Languages - C".

but-if-you've-never-had-to-read-stds-for-a-living-you-may-well-find-
    the-cnri-open-source-license-easier-to-understand<wink>-ly y'rs  - tim