[Tutor] Trying to prevent ftplib from locking my script

[Kent Johnson]

Andrew P wrote:
> Normally I wouldn't pipe up here because threads really can be very 
> tricky.  But check out:
> 
> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/435883
> 
> I use this recipe, originally from "Python in a Nutshell", all the time, 
> to solve exactly your problem.  Slow network stuff that I don't have 
> to/want to babysit.

There are also several recipes showing how to use a worker thread from a GUI program, for example this one:

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/82965

Kent