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[Erno Kuusela]

In article <d7Eb6.97788$y9.18847312 at typhoon.we.rr.com>, "Pete
Shinners" <shredwheat at mediaone.net> writes:

| "Johan Jonkers" <J.Jonkers at acriter.com> wrote
|| At the company I work we use python 1.5.2 on Solaris. I made a python
|| script on my home computer running linux (same python version btw), but
|| when I tried it at work it couldn't find the thread module. I thought
|| that the thread module was a standard module? Am I wrong in this?

| before python 2.0, the default python compile did not include
| threads. you'll need to ./configure --with-threads

the default compile doesn't include much anything, i think it has just
the modules that will build (without modifications to the library
and/or include paths or specifying which library to use) on all
platforms without errors.

  -- erno