[Python-Dev] Threading in the Standard Library Tour Part II

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Mon Aug 16 05:59:36 CEST 2004


On Sun, Aug 15, 2004, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>
> Many platform GUIs require that all or most all GUI activities be 
> consolidated to one and only one thread.  I don't think any of them 
> 'care' if another thread is also running, but it can't communicate 
> directly with the GUI.

That's true, but it also applies to other external resources, such as
files.
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