[META-SIG] Proposal for new SIG: Thread SIG
David Arnold
davida@pobox.com
Fri, 25 Jul 1997 00:02:46 +1000
-->"Jim" == Jim Fulton <jim.fulton@digicool.com> writes:
Jim> David Arnold wrote:
>> i'm not sure it needs to be said, but the GUI/threads problems
>> needs to be resolved before threads are truely useful in the
>> language also.
Jim> I don't agree with this. I'm not saying that one should not
Jim> solve important problems, but statements like "xxx will not be
Jim> truly useful unless it solves (domain specific) problem yyy"
Jim> give me a bit of heartburn. We use Python for developing Web
Jim> server applications and find the current thread support to be
Jim> truly useful to us.
sorry, point taken. we use threads usefully every day too :-/
it just worries me when such a fundamental thing (IMO) as threads only
half works. it'd be very unfortunate if we had to document stuff as
MT-Safe or otherwise throughout python.
especially with something so widely used as the GUI library.
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