[META-SIG] Proposal for new SIG: Thread SIG

[David Arnold]

-->"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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