Threads, again

[David Bolen]

"Alex McHale" <daimun at home.com> writes:

> This may be a bit of a dumb question - but I, for the life of me, can't
> understand why, when using the thread module, start_new_thread will only
> pass a tuple of arguments to the function.  Can anyone explain this to me?
> Does this mean any function I want to thread, has to take 3 arguments?

No, it means it has to take a "tuple", which is just a set of
elements, and can be of any length.  You may be thinking of "triplet"
which would be a set of 3 elements only.

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