print statement and multithreading

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <8o0elg0151u at news1.newsguy.com>,
Alex Martelli <alex at magenta.com> wrote:
>
>Yes, as long as Python keeps supporting pre-standard C compilers,
>it would be nice if a Python program could, at runtime, access some
>configuration-information to let it know about limitations of the
>current platform.  But maybe the real answer is to stop this support
>-- start demanding standard C as the prerequisite for a platform to
>have a Python port (and take full unconditional advantage of what the
>C standard mandates).  It's been almost 12 years since the standard
>started getting supported, isn't it?

IIRC, Python 2.0 will be ANSI-compliant.  I believe that Tim made
mention of some heroic coding efforts to make that happen.
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