Dec. 3, 2002
12:09 p.m.
Under 2.2 and earlier, on a platform that doesn't support threads, the above code will set threading to None, and the application can then use "if threading is None" to provide application-specific work- arounds.
I get this and always have. I just have not thought of it as huge of an issue as you do.
It is a big deal, Brett. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)