Threading legality/morality

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <h0%v6.1842$NR.144463 at news3.oke.nextra.no>,
Syver Enstad <syver at NOSPAMcyberwatcher.com> wrote:
>
>I have seen some strange behaviour in some multi threaded programs I have
>made in python, where they seem to lockup, but a push on the the return key
>(or another key, I don't know) keeps them going. These are console programs,
>running under Win2000 server and professional, Python 2.0.
>
>As I was writing this I checked out my program that has been running for
>about 24 hours, downloading files from the internet via urllib, and using
>ADO via pythoncom. It has been running ever so happily until about 10 clock
>this morning when I inspected some output it had given. Then it froze for
>about three hours, when I pushed a key on the keyboard it continued again.
>Strange.

There is a misfeature in urllib such that the standard FancyURLOpener
class prompts for input if it gets an HTTP 401 (authorization needed).
You probably pressed ENTER.
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