Help: puzzled about threads

[Jp Calderone]

On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 10:07:52PM +0000, Gon?alo Rodrigues wrote:
> [snip]
> >
> >Your thread didn't manage to start:
> 
> So I vary my question. Why exactly didn't the thread start?
> 
> >if you add the following lines, "sleeping..." won't print
> >     while mockthread.isAlive():
> >         print "Sleeping..."
> >         time.sleep(0.001)
> >
> >But if you add
> >	time.sleep(0.01)
> >before the loop above, everything will be OK.
> 
> And why does this solve the problem?
>

  Welcome to the world of race conditions.

  Jp

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