Threading question

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In the following code snippet, is the if statement redundant?
It seems to make no difference whether its there or not.

thread1.start()
thread2.start()
thread3.start()
thread4.start()

if threading.currentThread().getName() == 'MainThread':
    thread1.join()
    thread2.join()
    thread3.join()
    thread4.join()

TIA

Daniel.





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