questions about scope/threading

[Aahz]

In article <aoje8k$dpn$1 at newsreader.mailgate.org>,
eugene kim  <eugene1977 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>I understand thread differs from fork because thread shares local
>variables.  I'm having trouble understanding what's considered local
>variables..

Threads do *NOT* share local variables.  Threads share global variables.
The trick with Python is that *ALL* objects are truly global, so you
need to be careful with references to objects so that you either

* lock access to each object

* make sure that each object is referenced in only one thread at a time
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