[Python-3000] threading, part 2

[Guido van Rossum]

On 8/11/06, Jason Orendorff <jason.orendorff at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/11/06, tomer filiba <tomerfiliba at gmail.com> wrote:
> > why is thread.raise_exc(id, excobj) a bad API?
>
> It breaks seemingly innocent code in subtle ways.  Worse, the breakage
> will always be a race condition, so it'll be especially hard to
> reproduce and debug.

So is KeyboardInterrupt. But at least that can't be raised in threads.

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