Threading on an old machine

[Terry Reedy]

Astley Le Jasper wrote:
> I have an application that put on an old machine with a fresh Xubuntu
> installation (with Python 2.5). But I can't get the threading to work
> 
> The application was written on a combination of Windows XP and
> OpenSuse and has been running without any problems using Eclipse/
> Pydev. However, now that I try to run the application using IDLE it
> just hangs.  I have managed to track the point at which it hangs to
> the following line:
> 
> for sitename in mysites:
>     log.info("define thread")
>     thread_list[search_engine]=threading.Thread(name=sitename,
> target=myproceedure, args=(sitename,))
>     log.info("done")
>     thread_list[search_engine].start()
>     log.info("Started")
> 
> It gets to the "done" and then hangs. It doesn't appear to get to
> 'myproceedure'.

Since 'myproceedure' is before 'done', the above is unclear.