Threads and temporary files

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In message <302dd4f5-e9b3-4b0a-b80c-
ae43810d8731 at e18g2000yqo.googlegroups.com>, aiwarrior wrote:

> I recently am meddling with threads and wanted to make a threaded
> class that instead of processing anything just retrieves data from a
> file and returns that data to a main thread that takes all the
> gathered data and concatenates it sequentially.

Any reason you're using threads instead of processes?