Thread limits?

[Makhno]

>Pretty new to Python, and was messing about with multi-threading (also
>new).

I too have lots of questions about python threads, which I might get round
to posting soon.

>Is there a theoretical limit to the maximum number of threads that can be
>spawned?

Yes, 2^32-1.

>My machine (450MHz PIII, 320Mb RAM, Win98SE) tends to do it's dead-ant
>impersonation at around 1,000 threads created.

Windows 98 can bearly manage more than one thread, and 1000 threads is far
too much for anything but the latest most expensive multithread server-end
machine. Rethink your problem.