Threading legality/morality

[Syver Enstad]

I have a confession to make here. It seems that this behaviour is a feature
rather than a bug and has to do with the os rather than the app or python
itself for that matter. (Inserts foot in mouth).

If you click the mouse in the client area of a console window, the os
freezes the application running there until you press a key. I guess it's
for the convenience of copying text off of the console but it sure tripped
me up.


"Syver Enstad" <syver at NOSPAMcyberwatcher.com> wrote in message
news:99qogp$o6g$2 at troll.powertech.no...
>
> "John J. Lee" <phrxy at csv.warwick.ac.uk> wrote in message > Perhaps you're
> right, but I've seen the same behaiviour on win95, without
> > multi-threading.  When you run command-line (do we mean the same thing
by
> > console and command-line?) apps it freezes until a key gets pressed.
Not
> > using urllib either.
> >
> > It is possible (likely, even) that I was using cygwin, so maybe that's
> > where the blame lies.  I'll see if I can reproduce it with the standard
> > DOS shell.
>
> I am using console program/command line whatever you like, and I am not
> using Cygwin. I've experienced this both on the BeOpen and ActiveState
> distros.
>
>