Threading under Slackware

[David Ascher]

On 25 May 1999, Preston Landers wrote:

> When I try to 'from threading import *' the threading module tries to
> import thread and gets something along the lines of a module not found 
> error.
> 
> Is it possible to run this app on Slackware?  What do I need to tell
> the box's admin to do?  Is it 'simply' recompiling Python with thread
> support, or is Slackware just not going to cut it?  (I developed it on 
> my Debian 2.1 box.)

Slackware will cut it just fine.  Your sysadmin just needs to do a
'configure --with-thread' and a reinstall.

--david ascher